(Finance) – The shareholders of Twitterduring an extraordinary assembly, have $ 44 billion purchase offer approved presented last April by Elon Musknumber one of Tesla. This is a formal step to finalize the agreement, on which a court will decide in October.
Musk said in July that he wanted to cancel the deal, arguing that Twitter does not correctly represent its user base and the number of bots and spam accounts. Twitter denied these allegations and sued Musk in a Delaware court to force him to complete the acquisition.
The shareholder vote followed the testimony made today before the US Senate of whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatkothe former head of security of the social network who reported flaws in the data protection system.
“Twitter’s insecure handling of its user data and its inability or unwillingness to truthfully represent issues to its board and regulators have created a real risk for tens of millions of Americans, the democratic process American and American national security, “Zatko said at the hearing.