Elon Musk Wants to Publicly Debate Twitter's CEO About Bots
Elon Musk still wants to argue with Twitter about bots.
A quick recap: Musk announced his intent to acquire Twitter for $44 billion in April, then put the deal on hold in May, and said that he could legally cancel the deal if he didn't get access to the data he wanted in June. Twitter responded by filing a lawsuit against Musk in July.
Musk has claimed that he wants to back out of the Twitter deal over concerns that the company's platform has more bots than it has publicly admitted. Twitter has reportedly granted Musk access to the data he's requested, but that doesn't seem to be enough for the controversial billionaire.
That hasn't stopped Musk from saying that he would consider moving forward with the deal... or challenging Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the issue:
Twitter didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk and Twitter already seem poised to head to a courtroom over the $44 billion acquisition. Presumably that would give both parties the platform they need to publicly debate anything relevant to the deal—including the bot problem—to determine whether or not it should proceed.
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