China News Service, May 17. According to Agence France-Presse, the world's richest man and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the 17th local time that if the Twitter CEO cannot publicly prove that there are less than 5% of false accounts on Twitter , he won't go ahead with the Twitter deal.

FILE PHOTO: Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

  On the 13th local time, Musk suddenly announced that the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter was "on hold" and asked Twitter to release details on the number of spam and fake accounts.

  In response, the Twitter CEO posted more than a dozen tweets detailing how the company counts bot accounts and said he had shared the estimation process with Musk.

  However, Musk still insisted that Twitter did not show evidence of less than 5% of fake accounts.