Tesla CEO

Elon Musk

has threatened to withdraw his offer on Twitter and cancel the purchase because, according to him, the social network does not provide him with information about false accounts on the platform.

This is reflected in a letter addressed to the company's legal officer that has been revealed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Thus, according to the document, collected by AFP, Twitter would have committed "a clear material breach" of its "obligations under the merger agreement and Mr. Musk

reserves his right not to consummate the transaction

and his right to terminate the agreement of fusion".

According to the firm, around 5% of registered accounts are fake.

"Twitter's latest offer to simply provide additional details regarding its testing methods, (delivered details) via written documents or verbal explanations, amounts to rejecting Mr. Musk's requests for data," the letter reads.

On May 13, the businessman decided to temporarily suspend the purchase of Twitter.

The reason, he explained, was that he wanted to know in more detail what was the proportion of false accounts and 'bots' over the total number of active users of the social network, although at that time he claimed to be "still committed to the acquisition ".

When the president of Twitter,

Parag Agrawal

, gave Musk information about the company's analysis of this data, the Tesla manager simply replied with an emoji of excrement and then criticized the analysis to propose the one he considers appropriate.

Musk made a formal offer to buy the social network - he already owned 9% of its share capital - for $44 billion.

Shortly after, he began to use the platform itself to suggest changes to it and also to criticize the absence of this information.

In the sector it came to be understood as a strategy to be able to go back on the purchase agreement without having to pay compensation.

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