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Twitter executives reportedly pushed back Thursday against billionaire Elon Musk's remarks that the $44 billion deal he struck to purchase the influential social network is "on hold," signaling that the company plans to move forward with the acquisition.
Musk said this week that the deal can't move forward until he gets proof that fewer than 5% of Twitter's 229 million daily users in the first quarter were fake or spam-focused. Musk has also said that a deal at a lower sales price isn't out of the question, DigitalMiddle raising the possibility that he could back out of buying Twitter.
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