Elon Musk says US$44 billion Twitter buyout ‘cannot move forward’ until he gets proof about bots


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Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was given assurances on the bots that he says plague the platform, further complicating his acrimonious bid for the social media giant. The chief of SpaceX as well as Tesla , Musk is currently listed by Forbes as the world’s wealthiest person, with a fortune of about US$230 billion, much of it in Tesla stock. Seen by his champions as an iconoclastic genius and by his critics as an erratic megalomaniac, Musk surprised many investors in April with news that he wanted to...