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It seems he barged in, went through internal chats to look for evidence to scuttle the deal or change the terms. https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15868858873416458...

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Would anything let him change the deal at this point? Even if Twitter was hiding their bot problem Elon's initial offer waived his ability to do due diligence on this, no?

The courts can make anything happen .

You'd think so, but so far it seems like they can't get him out of this deal no matter how hard he tries.

It helps if you don’t make them hate you - because “can” doesn’t mean “must”.

I wonder how that would work, practically. You'd have to track down every individual shareholder and... what undo the transaction? Seems impractical.

The money hasn't been released to shareholders yet.

Currently the target is Nov 8, but a lot could happen before then.

He's a vindictive little man, even if he is stuck with Twitter at the price he paid, he probably wants revenge. Any evidence about information he didn't see will be fair game to claim witholding information from the court. And maybe a sec fraud indictment against those that were at the helm of Twitter.

He wouldn't be able to change the deal, but a lawsuit against the previous board/executives is possible.

The entire waiving of due diligence thing is also such a weird talking point. There was no contingency on due diligence, but part of the deal did include access to the information he would need to do it and any incorrect information in public filings should have been enough to get out of the deal.

If I were Elon there is zero chance I’d be able to resist name-searching myself in the company Slack, just in public channels and channels I was added to. I can’t blame him for that.

Tweeting it out, well. I could resist that urge just fine.

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