is it about bots? >> i don't think so.s you have been talking for a couple of weeks now, i think it is probably about his hope of renegotiating the deal. the market has changed dramatically since he agreed to by twitter for $54.20 per share in late april. i imagine if he had waited even a month, he could have gotten the company for a much lower price. i since that he is using this issue to force a change. caroline: twitter has said we are holding him accountable for the price he talked of. realistically, this is heading to the courts? >> it feels that way. twitter has control in the sense that he has agreed to buy the company for this price. he cannot simply walk away without some type of legal battle. twitter seems to be saying they are willing to do that. i don't how beneficial that is to twitter to spend a lot of time and money fighting him in court. maybe they would come to some type of agreement to lower the price without having to get there. it is in twitter's best interest to get the best deal for the company. right

i think that is a big problem. >> there is, to be fair, a problem with bots.gger than twitter says. i suspect that he has a different experience on twitter than the average user. he is overwhelmed by bs replies and spam and all of that. the average user, maybe not so much. he has an unusual experience on twitter and that might be affecting this. we will put the headline on the screen, musk had twins last year with one of his top executives. why so much baby drama with elon musk? >> he stated this weekend that he believes that the world has a problem with population growth, and that he is doing his part. >> we need more people? >> we need a lot more babies. >> he is doing his part by having lots of babies. i think the heart of the discussion is that we, the nation seems to love talking about the world's richest man. and he loves everybody talking about him. he loves to say and do things that keep him in the spotlight for whatever reason, whether it is you know, talking about populating mars or putting chips, computer chips in people's brains, which is something

it was the bots what done him in. it looks like elon's complaint might have merit. the bot problem. is it enough to scuttle the deal? tim: i'm of the opinion, i've looked into the way twitter functions and builds bots, i have built a twitter bot and run it, and i think twitter has a lot of transparency into how much bots they have on the system. if they are lying about it, that would be supremely stupid to do. i don't think they are lying about it. it comes down to whether musk wants to trust them and if they even agree on what the term bot means. at the end of the day i don't think it is enough to scuttle the deal, i think it is a negotiating tactic. is it material or adverse? these questions will be duped out in the delaware court of chancery. i don't think it has merit, but that will be up to other people to decide. dani: tim, thank you. plenty of data to mind when it comes to twitter and the bot problem. let's look at some of the key things participants will be watching out for today. the world's largest economy in focus, we will get the latest from germany's expectations, and c

bots than usual. that's what her ruling implies to me. unless she said something different. liz: this is the judge, obviously. she's a tough one. charlie: i'm just telling you there is a case to be made to settle in the middle, because they are never getting $40 a share. okay let's suppose they get 20 billion, 10 billion out of musk. stock goes to where? in a declining advertising environment, does it go to 30? does it go to 20? i mean this is not a great company. liz: but does the judge rule on what a stock price could or could not do? charlie: i don't know. i just know the judge is going to weigh a lot of factors, including the fact that twitter has a bot problem. elon signed a deal that said that he waived due diligence which is insane. twitter, for its part, doesn't have a lot of, there's no other buyers, forget about nibbles buying it, ever. liz: but what about this bot issue? charlie: you have to weigh the fact that do you force a sale to some guy that doesn't want it? liz: okay, this guy, elon

enemy creates doppelgangers useful chat movements that we use in telegram how can you confuse a real bot with an enemy one they are distinguished by barely noticeable signs for eva literature an extra symbol some sales are verified and have such a mark but i'll leave it all to check the chat bot, it's just a state database of bots on the website dovidka.info, enter the name or link here, get the result, if the database is missing, there will be a message about this cyber police, remember deceive the enemy, we will outplay you, you are not to blame, together, the only news, together, we are strong, we will support the ukrainian army with money, scan the code, glory to ukraine, good night to all who are with us at this late hour of the day, on july 6, the calendar has already marked the 133rd day of full-scale war as a development russia and anton were scared and we will traditionally start the new information hour with a news release. the russians continue to roam around ukraine. dnipropetrovsk region, according to president volodymyr zelenskyi, part of the missiles were shot down by our

they probably have bots because of their hedging over the years.ying to pull a fast one here. he started trying to get out of this deal the minute, the minute tesla started to tank and he should have known it was going to tank because the feds raising rates and risky assets coming down. it's bizarre that he will sue twitter. take that off of the table as a reasonable course. if you think about it, what damages did they cause him? he's the one that is screwing around with them. he's got to get a lawyer to file that 1. i'm not saying he won't do it but it could be laughed at by the court. again, the reasonable, logical thing. we're talking and elon musk here. when i say logic, take it broadly. they settle in the middle and that he buys it, he buys it at a lot less of a price and we go away and talk about something else. this all happens in october as john coffee said. who knows. >> neil: who knows is right. >> i hate game playing. >> neil: you're just a country reporter. i've heard that. charlie gasparino. clarification from my interview with the pre

so bots are bad. i think he is still going to get this done, elon musk. to expose how many they have come to get the price down, and buy it. >> harris: i'm amazed how long it's taken twitter to capitulate to this. if they really wanted this deal to go through, he told us he wanted the number of bots like 2.5 months ago. it's been so long that we could've hand counted the bots. [laughter] see if that's true. if it was possible, but we are in the virtual world. >> harris: well, you are! >> brian: thank you. you're welcome to visit. [laughter] how weird is this? it went from, uh-oh, elon musk is the majority holder of our company, panic, i'm going to quit, then he goes, i'm not going to be on the board, now he's going to own your company. now i'm going to buy your company, okay, you can have it. he goes, "i don't want it." "you don't want me? i'm going to force you to marry me. and if you don't, you have to pay me a billion dollars." he's going to get the price down. i think you're right, that he's trying to get the price down. that would be good. in the mea

he would swear by his research shows the company undercounted the bots and fake users. he says i'll go to my dying day know that that is the case. how do you prove that? >> the only way that argument works is if musk is able to show that twitter materially and intentionally breached the contract in providing wrong information. obviously musk says there's at least 20% fake accounts. twitter saying there's 5% maybe. the problem is how do you prove that? elon was supposed to do his due diligence. >> neil: twitter has the wherewithal to prove that. so where do you see this going? >> i think they're probably going to settle or renegotiate the price. the easiest way to do this, twitter stock prices falling, everybody's reputation is at stake. so what will happen in the court, they'll settle or renegotiate. news coming in on what's going on at the border before the mexican president's visit to the white house tomorrow. bill melugin has more. >> not only detail illegals but drop them off at ports of entry. this is one of the first cases of that happening. this bus is full of il

musk says 20% bots twitter says 5% bots of course, there's all these different ways you can measure andhere in between there as well. >> we should note, by the way, if if you read the twitter filings, they call it an estimate, and then they say the estimate could be wrong, which gives them a lot of wiggle room across the board julia boorstin, great to see you this morning as we mentioned, when it comes to the contract, you know who knows about contracts and getting out of contracts, donald trump. he says it's a rotten contract he read the contract he said, i read the contract it's a rotten contract. >> i still like when he said elon musk was good at rockets. >> good at rockets. >> that was a quote. good at rockets. it's true. darn good. council of economics advisers jared bernstein gives us a take on the economy and the latest jobs report how the fed will decide on the data when it decides its next fed rate hikes stay tuned you're watching "squawk box" on cnbc live from the market site in times square. ♪♪ you try it. ♪♪ better. ♪♪ oh, you gotta move your feet. charles. alright, alright,

, first of all, the terminology of all these issues, as we said with you, this is not a network of bots, this is a network of coordinated inauthentic behavior if this term is fixed in the legislation, then we will understand what we are dealing with and the next step is a digital examination. i have such a selection, for example, there is a sin fuller, he clearly broadcasts the following narratives on the territory of ukraine, the war between nato and russia, the second nato thoughtlessly expanded to the borders of russia. that is, we can his position, he is the ex-head of the cia's national intelligence council for long-term forecasting, well, we have certain, well, certain tricks further there helga is cloak founders president of the schiller institute about russian generations freedom of speech unlike the usa and the west in general the usa enslaves ukraine if a digital examination proves that it is this narrative what you asked appeared on february 20 there on the third of february in russian well it was repeatedly duplicated and the person clearly fulfills well task, we are talking

i have looked at the way bots are made on the api, i have made a twitter bot, i have looked at how itdone and it is my belief twitter can do a good job of estimating how many bots would be on their system. assuming they are honest, and they would be stupid to light about what they know, they are probably pretty close to the mark saying the number is less than 5%. elon musk thinks differently, i don't know where he gets those numbers from. or if he has data that proves he is right, but really at the end of the day, even if it is above 5% a little bit, it is not actually very material. we know what the revenue and usage of twitter is, we know the p&l and their assets, so all those things are well and known. i haven't heard musk debate the veracity of that other data. at the end of the day, he is looking for something to negotiate on and it will go to court now and will be. played out in the court of chancery in delaware. tom: who is likely to be the biggest loser as they arm themselves with some of the u.s.'s best lawyers? >> it doesn't really look good for musk based on the way the cou

since day one this has all been a crusade against the bots. he knows the bots are are a problem. the due diligence provision because he really didn't seem to care in the beginning. what is not the perception of bots, in my opinion, it's the market. he, like, went right at kind of the top all before this most recent collapse, so not only has tesla's stock collapsed, but the broader market and other tech stocks have collapsed, and he made a timing error here, and i think he has big, big regrets over this and knows that that's a mistake and that based on the world as it stands today and the fact that we don't have this fed if easy money policy, that he is overpaying for this property and trying everything he can to try to either renegotiate or renege entirely. cheryl: cheryl: you know what, you're bringing up an interesting point about due diligence. that was always the question, why he did waive the due diligence part of this especially for $44 billion. the other interesting issue was the issue of tesla, because now there's concerns that his eye is not on tesla, his eye is on twitt

. >> and there was a lot of bots. >> how could you know about the bots. >> got to know about the bots ross sorkin will explain why the billionaire wants to back out. >> because it was a stupid deal that he stumbled into. >> maybe it is the wrong time of day. and it is a four-pete for novak djokovic as his opponent does his best john mcenroe impression. >> but except he wins. that was crazy stuff yesterday. crazy stuff. this guy had to run for a republican like a -- n for a n for a republican so you only pay for what you need. (emu squawks) if anyone objects to this marriage, speak now or forever hold your peace. (emu squawks) (the crowd gasps) no, kevin, no! not today. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ it wasn't me by shaggy ♪ for unauthorized ese only pay for what you need. purchases on your discover card. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to suppleme

now, this really all comes down to the number of spam bots on the platform. reason bots are so important is musk has made no new attempts to grow the revenue, and that risks on act -- rests on active users. all indications suggest that several of twitter's public exposures are either false or materially misleading. it appears twitter is dramatically understating the number of spam and false accounts. can he legally walk away? there's a billion dollar break-up fee, but the tesla ceo could face far bigger consequences if a bitter legal battle ensues. musk has waive -- had waived his right to poke under the hood, but if his team can prove twitter intentionally misled, transaction lawyers tell me he does have cause. it'll be tough. and if the social platform did lie to the sec, they're in trouble with them, shareholders and potentially with advertisers. >> the reality is twitter sells views, and if those views to advertisers are not real people, then they have been defrauded. and so those, the potential for those claims exists. >> reporter: now, for all this talk

inflow, bot controversy it isn't know, neil. it has been around three years. did twitter withhold the information and what did they agree to? neil: jonathan, i draw a distinction with susan, in other words, disagree with her, i think things changed dramatically for elon musk when he saw tesla stock tumble, sees himself lose a third of his value and he looks at it and says what the hell have i gotten myself into here? we wonder if that is the reality. if we don't get at least the confirmation of the bot allegations he raised time and again, it doesn't help him. what do you think? >> neil in a free economy there are no kings even elon musk said, doesn't have unlimited resources. tesla's stock is down 40% just this year. that means it requires a 66% return just to get back to even. elon musk tremendously intelligent, successful individual, but in this case like icarus has flown a little bit too close to the sun with those wax wings. so much of this bid, neil, was emotional. it was egotistical, politically motivated and he missed th

how many bots do we have? how many fake accounts exist? all of those questions still need to be answered whether or not elon musk follows through with what he's going to do or not. i think it's a very interesting spot and that's the only reason i push back on why i don't necessarily see this stock starting to make any kind of move to the upside. i think that is something we have only talked about. we have never really defined it and i think right now we have been highlighted to it by elon musk as a strategy that he has been using as of late. >> considering there was a bid for twitter, and never closed the gap. it never sounded like this deal what happened. let's say he walks away. doesn't twitter go a significantly lower from here knowing that there isn't a buyer out there for this company? does it meander because it has been trading like that the whole time? >> it will be trading a lot lower than has been previously and realistically i think it's a good point. questions have to be answered. he's backing out because there are too many subs

the second panel is they did not want to tell me how many bots they had and now they are taking me tort to force me to buy and the final panel says they will now be forcing -- forced in court to review info on the bots. a lot of people will be watching. >> that is certainly going to be a very interesting one. we are still watching this live crossing from the be ok pressure. the government is saying no need for the u.s.. maybe we won't see these basis point hikes. a lot of questions we can continue to watch. >> we also see that they have been talking to janet yellen as well. let's leave that for the time being. we will tell you what is going on with the markets in our neck of the woods. there is no real confidence to take on that much risk as we look out for the u.s. inflation data later today. we do have oil dropping. and also the dollar near parity with the euro. we have our interview with that company in the hong kong stock exchange. the ship was -- the sharepoint at the moment will be discussed with the director. frank will join us next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> take a look at the m

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the world's richest man says the platform allows to many bots, and faith kept clos, say multi lateral, some, it becomes a diplomatic show down over the war in ukraine brushes. foreign minister is said to have walked out of a meeting of the g. 20 in bali delegates a survey lab rav clash with western counterparts over russia's invasion of ukraine . ah, a michael ok, welcome. the people of japan, or in deep morning following the assassination of former prime minister shinji, obey a motorcade carrying the body of the slain. former leader has arrived at his home in tokyo. ave was gun down yesterday at a campaign rally in japan, south. the killing in broad daylight has shocked japan. a country where gun related violence is extremely rare. oh, the moment shin, so aren't they? we shot twice. a suspect man handled to the ground, what appears to be a weapon lying on the road near by. people run to the age of japan's former prime minister as he lay seriously wounded. he was quickly transferred to a helicopter and flown to a hospital. at this point, his condition was described as critical, but do

the platform allows to many bots in fake accounts. the deal was worth $44000000000.00. twitter now says it intends to take legal action. also coming up japan in div of morning, a convoy of cars escorting the body of shins obey arrives at his home in tokyo, japan's longest serving government leader woods gun down yesterday at a political rally. and a multi lateral summit becomes a diplomatic showdown over the war in ukraine. russia's foreign minister is said to have walked out of the meeting of the g. 20 in bali delegate, say, survey laughter of clash with western counterparts over rushes invasion of ukraine . ah, a warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm michael o, coo tesla c e. o. e. lon. musk has dropped his beard to buy twitter. he's accused the social media network of withholding information about fake accounts. twitter plans to assume us to compel him to make good on the $44000000000.00 deal. ah, does the world's richest person have buyer's remorse. ellen musk decision to pull the plug on buying. twitter adds yet anoth

i don't think bots is a major issue for advertisers. twitter is a fascinating company.e to go through a legal process for several years. dagen: particularly a company that lost i think it's $1.3 billion in the last two years. and twitter had already implemented -- it was something that elon musk was arguing on friday that they were making -- he argued that the company was making critical changes to the ordinary of running of business without his consent including a hiring freeze and layoffs when in fact so much of tech has started doing that, just trying to brace themselves for a downturn in business, a downturn in ad revenue. so how do you see this company moving forward without musk, potentially? >> well, they've always been competitively disadvantaged. if you're an advertising platform what you want to offer advertisers and marketers are two things, reach and frequency and the ability to really track and attribute the effectiveness of ad campaigns and there's two large ad platforms that do this extremely well. google and meta, alphabet and a meta or google and facebo

, it’s just a state database of bots on the website dovidka.info , enter the name or link here to gete yourself , we will intercept the defeat, we will win, the news together, we are strong, andriy bugarov dreams of skiba, we follow everything that is important, and that is, the news of the day is that boris johnson resigned, we are talking about it today we talked and we can continue this topic with valentin smooth - he is a political analyst of the public association word and deed of mr. valentin we congratulate good night good night actually resignation or rather not even resignation but that it should precede this resignations were very lively discussed in ukraine and there were even such thoughts that nothing will happen yet, he will not go anywhere, but he still left, and we still need to talk to you, i want to talk to you about exactly how from the side of ukraine, how it can affect ukraine well, and about our society, which reacted very briskly to all this, but first of all, a few remarks, because i saw that there you were congratulating on family day, it is real to me. this i

if he will be against him quickly, including this, it is completely legal, faster than the kremlin botss for that matter that you are violating territorial integrity here , opposing sovereignty in france, how quickly will it come to france? well, we don't know that, but we know that europeans are influenced little by little, well, in some places, by the statements of such experts, how did you understand these pseudo-experts, how will this story be constructed hmm, that's how we figured it out. as i said at the beginning of the conversation, there are already several tens of people, according to these experts, we transferred them to the ukrainian investigative services , to the intelligence agencies, to the security service of ukraine there. quite angry, each of them has been traced a-a position and narratives er-e where does it all come from well, you need to understand how it works first because the absence of er-e for this punishment gives the opportunity to have i have such an opinion, in principle, what are you to a person well, today according to the laws of france , you can incrim

extra symbol, some sales are verified and have this mark, but i will leave it all to check the chat bot just a state database of bots on the website dovidka.info , enter the name or link here, get the result if the database is missing be report this to the cyber police remember the enemy fool yourself we will outplay we will win bristles news together mice only news together we are strong will support the ukrainian army with money scan the code glory to ukraine good night to all who are with us at this late hour

i myself block such bots after the news.hey have recently resorted to such tactics that in pro-russian telegram channels they report the places where they will shoot, that is, they say we we shoot at 50 there, there is a school there, because there is a warehouse of weapons, equipment and the military. somewhere in two weeks, they shoot there and then they say that there they did tet-a-te destroyed the equipment warehouse there eh and the ukrainian nazis eh however, we please mykolaiv residents should not post videos on the internet immediately after the shelling. a collapsed building, but there is no military equipment. well , thirdly, the most important thing is that when there are buildings or anything, military or civilian people come there, rescuers come , that is, the ministry of emergency situations and

and then i received feedback from the search chat bot service children in telegram to us wrote a womanery recently managed to leave there and knows about the situation in the occupied area, of course i called back and received very encouraging information. techno wall is a very familiar region for me. i am from kupyansk and it became news. it didn't take my parents that far and there is no shelling there. it's just an occupation and i think that there is simply no connection there, the coverage is jamming the connection, uh, since march, the connection there is very bad and it breaks through very rarely, so i would like maybe this information will calm down more to a mother who is looking for children, there are problems with communication, and i think this information can at least calm them down a little, there are no words, but there are problems with communication, maybe that's why the mother can't call the children. thank you for the information, but of course i want more specifics, so i'm very i am asking the residents of the occupied forest wall and surrounding villages who may s

twitter does have a problem with fake accounts, sometimes known as bots. twitter have? in a filing to the market regulator, he claimed the responses he received from twitter weren't adequate, that twitter was in breach of contract, and he was pulling out of the deal. but twitter�*s board hit back, saying mr musk could not pull out of the deal, and that they expected the sale to go through at the price agreed. i imagine there's some very dramatic talks happening as we speak. but unless something comes to fruition over the weekend, they come to some kind of terms or a renegotiated price for this deal, i would imagine a lawsuit is either being drafted currently and being filed, or will be filed on monday. there has been some speculation that elon musk has an ulterior motive. with the economy looking worse than it was, the deal was looking like an increasingly bad one for the world's richest man. whether mr musk now has to buy twitter will be decided in a us court with some very expensive lawyers — which, fortunately for him, elon musk can very much afford. ja

they are still going to be arguing about bots.ut they are not going to be the loan out thing elon musk and his lawyers want. emily: the professor makes a good point. you almost forget twitter didn't want to do this in the first place and now here we are. what are you hearing from your twitter sources about what they are going to be doing over the next few weeks? kurt: obviously there's a lot of preparation that will go into this. but as eric mentioned, this is a good win for twitter because it shows their argument is being well-received, which i think is the big thing. i think they've already sort of one in the court of public opinion. that's certainly on my twitter feed, there's a lot of support for twitter. i've seen employees seem to be happy with how the company is handled this. it's about trying to remove a lot of the uncertainty because the company has been this weird state for months where they say it's business as usual, but you can't imagine you are going to be putting a six or 12 month product roadmap out the door when y

say twitter wins, and the court laughs out musk's arguments that , you know, there's more than 5% bots, hiding the football, a court could compel him to complete the deal at 54.20. it is very possible he's going to have to fork over 44 billion and if he defies a court order, the consequences are jail time. now whether it goes there or not i can't tell you. let me make this point now. if musk wins, this is fascinating too because that means huge legal ramifications for twitter so remember what musk is saying. essentially that twitter is hiding the football, that its bot problem is much, much worse than what has been publicly disclosed to shareholders and securities and exchange commission for the last 10 years since its been a public company. think about that. it's lying to public investors for 10 years. that means, everybody, from jack dorsey to the current management lied. they face serious securities fraud issues if they put out the wrong information, because bots, you know, that's how investors sort of gauge the business, and trade the stock. they want to know how many real active u

first he said that twitter is not complied on sharing information with him about these bots.hile twitter does have a duty under the contract to do that, is not unlimited. they get to make reasonable judgment about whether that will harm it competitively and what -- and whether it would violate the law and even if twitter breached that agreement, only a material breach would let elon musk walk away so i'm not sure the judge would buy that and that's probably his strongest argument. his argument that twitter has been ripped desmet -- misrepresenting his bots will not prevail. it's hard under delaware president to prove and he criticizes twitter for hiring and firing the last couple of months. the contract let's twitter act reasonably in the ordinary course. i'm skeptical whether a judge can use that to allow him to walk away. taylor: we appreciate it. thanks for breaking it down. it's an ongoing saga. let's look at the overall markets with the doubt going positive the first time today. it feels like volatility is indeed the talk of the day. what do you make of these volatile ma

but within weeks he said the deal was an ice citing concern about the number of bots and fake accounts on the platform. twitter states that less than 5 percent of its accounts, the spam musk says he thinks it's closer to 20 percent. the company isn't giving up without a fight. twitters chairman brit taylor tweeted that the board plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. he wrote, we are confident we will prevail. musk once claimed to have big plans to grow twitter, the republican leaning billionaire wanted to let form a u. s. president donald trump tweet again and argued for looser freedom of speech rules. unless content restrictions for the entrepreneur behind electric, cars and spacecraft, it could be a costly crash landing. the company could seek a break up fee of $1000000000.00. let's get more from did of your reports. actual do loy, who has been following the story. hello joel. i don't know what you've been out to compiling everything, but how did we get it? this has been described as a corporate soap opera, alyssa, forget that it actually started from a loan m

the richest person in the world says the platform allows to many bots and fake accounts now to to says as cunning to take legal action. ah, i'm here to mohammed walking to the program. as for lankin prime ministers residence has been set on fire. after protesters stormed the presidential palace in colombo, president got to buy at roger parks i had earlier fled, but it's not clear where he is. public anger has been growing over she because economic crisis, people are facing shortages, few food and medicine. the country doesn't have enough money to pay for impulse, critical frame, the hardships on roger pox, i and his family who say they are corrupt. meanwhile, the prime minister says he will resign to make way for a unity government. well, we asked sri lankan john, this marlon maria, sing, how volatile the situation is on the streets offline because capital colombo, as you can see behind me, i'm at a very close by and it does have a good at that. yeah. especially after the after the attack, a guy that does and then they also at that a few then least from new it after that are not the pe

and then i received feedback from the search chat bot service children in telegram to us wrote a woman who very recently managed to leave there and knows about the situation in the occupied area, of course i called back and received very encouraging information, the protective wall is a very familiar region for me. i am from there in the village of kupyansk. occupation and i think that there is simply no connection there, the coverage is jamming the connection , uh, since march, the connection there is very bad and breaks through very rarely, and that is why i would like , perhaps, this information to calm my mother down more is looking for children, this is a communication problem, and i think this information can at least calm them down a little, but there are communication problems, maybe that's why the mother can't call the children. thanks for the information, but of course i want more specifics, so i'm asking the residents of the of the forest wall and villages around which i may be seen now, look carefully at the photo melania chumak, 13, looks her age, she has dark eyes and lig

twitter actually said yesterday that they delete 1 million bots bots a day.musk says he bought something under false pretences and there were way more active users on twitter than there are. as a result of that, "you breached the contract "and, as a result of that, i am pulling out." whereas twitter is saying "no, no. "we told you all of this information, we have given "you all the information you need, and you are now "in breach of this contract. "we want to carry on with this deal, it's a good dealfor us, "and we'll see you in the us courts." so, as you say, an absolute stand—off between twitter and elon musk. and, to be honest, elon musk, it looked like he was trying to get out of the dealfor weeks. this is the final confirmation of him trying to do that, and it is now down to very, very expensive lawyers to try and thrash this out. people have been sceptical because the price that he offered for twitter was much more than many thought twitter was worth. the share market — the share price for twitter has gone down significantly since then, as it has done f

that there are bots, that there are farms in social media, i think that is well understood.t is part of the peril of these industries and of these companies. twitter, pinterest, google, a spoke have -- facebook have had to fought -- fight against these forms. people run a bots for political reasons and commercial reasons but it has always been a factor. i do not think it has been an issue for advertisers. i think 5 billion in ad revenue that twitter got last year, they earned it. and i think advertisers were not put off by the fact that there were lots on the platform. caroline: has there been any upside to be whole fiasco for twitter? mark: i am struggling, caroline. i think there has been no upside, so all you have done is created a lot of dysfunction within the company. they have lost some of their top employees. there has probably been demoralization of employees because elon musk has come out and said that there are too many people working there. how would you feel of some but he was going to buy your company, started off by saying there were too many employees? i think

they've settled on bots. today's hearing is a pretty good indicator as to whether the court believes this is a contract dispute or a data and facts dispute. and i suspect very strongly that the court will pick contract dispute. >> over the past several years, there's kind of been this floating issue, are people corporations are corporations people? right? we've been dealing with this as an american society. in this case, elon musk is so rich that he was able to sort of become a corporation and very quickly make the sorts of decisions that normally take boards, that take shareholder approval, and now he's trying to undo the consequence of that are there implications outside of just elon musk and twitter here or is elon musk so unique this is just an interesting case in and of itself? >> obviously, this is an interesting case, solely because elon musk is involved. but i think there actually are other elements that one should be aware of. in particular, i believe that we should watch the ruling very closely, bec

they have to expose bot information in court.er without legal precedence for forcing someone to go through a purchase, but that clause in court and i'm no lawyer, todd, you're the lawyer. that has been for smaller transactions, nothing of this size. i don't think either side wants to go to court, get back to the bargaining table. >> todd: we'll all become experts in corporate law and finance because this will be all over, this is big and huge. this is not good, this video is sickening. >> cheryl: talking about the economy in the streets of san francisco, new video emerging of school kids getting off a bus and walking through a group of homeless drug addicts. parents are furious. >> get home safe, sorry you got to see all this [bleep]. >> cheryl: this doctor says kids have suffered enough. >> in order to encourage drug use and attract homelessness, we've had the problem explode. people say this is out of compassion and it is out of compassion for homeless. none of this makes any sense. >> cheryl: to be clear, i lived in san franci

the claims that he is making it to have a lot more bots, but he has no evidence presented thus far in any way to enhance that. by the way, in court it doesn't me those tweets that he has where we're going to find out now, they don't necessarily have to rebut him. he has to also bring evidence in court that says we believe and why we believe. then they can rebut that. >> the stakes are really high. >> the company is in a very difficult position with him attacking them constantly. now with their basic business model in question to a certain extent with him saying we think it is a far higher percentage of people paying in advertising that are nothing more than bots. he's also making a claim that they are not in compliance with the sec, given that perhaps this has been fraudulent. even if you were to prove that there were a higher number of bots, you still have to prove that it is a material adverse effect. >>'s team has spent a lot of time with management going over very strong periods of open store, meaning that musk really felt that they had gotten a really good look at it. that is goi

. >> reporter: among the deal breakers, that twitter has too many bots or fake users, and that affects the company's bottom line and value in any deal. >> the whole bot issue is actually a legitimate issue that should have been addressed in the beginning. it goes to this idea of daily monetize users and that's how twitter makes its money. >> reporter: is it enough to cancel a signed contract? the shareholders say legally they should be paid. musk clearly does not want to part with $44 billion. >> now we are going toward a protracted lawsuit, a legal situation where both sides of lawyered up big time. >> reporter: meanwhile, twitter, and its board of directors insists they will stick to the original deal and the $44 billion price tag, despite elon musk claim that twitter has violated that agreement. there is a third option, a contract cancellation fee that would cost him $1 billion. we will keep you posted. >>> as we all try navigating our way through the ongoing drought, a bay area city is accusing a large ranch of stealing water. how the ranch is responding. >>> a popular reality tv s

a lot of sympathy given that elon started the deal he will fix the bots problem.hat is why he liked twitter. alex: the upside potentially. then, of course, things changed in the financial side of things and then the bots become the reason to ditch it. his lawyers will have to pull an incredible rabbit out of the hat to make this deal not happen. dani: alex, thank you so much. alex webb literally answering every single tech question for us. coming up, speaking of tech, softbank pausing its listings in the u.k. of the chip designer arm. that was sent to become a london listing. it cited political turmoil in westminster. more on that story next. this is bloomberg. ♪ dani: welcome back to bloomberg daybreak: europe. let's take a look at some of the key things to watch out for today. 10:00 a.m. u.k. time, june's euro area cpi. 1:00 p.m. is the bloomberg crypto summit. speakers will include sam bank man-fried. matt levine will be taking a break from writing his column to moderate the panel. at 1:30 p.m., we get u.s. housing data. the chancellor zahawi and andrew bailey

musk waived due diligence on the bots before he signed a deal.t never know, things have to develop and there may be things that we don't know at this point. that's why they have two sides to every court case. emily: two sides indeed. thanks so much,jef. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." tomorrow we will hear from a big investor in this is xfinity rewards. our way of showing our appreciation. with rewards of all shapes and sizes. [ cheers ] are we actually going? yes!! and once in a lifetime moments. two tickets to nascar! yes! find rewards like these and so many more in the xfinity app. vo: when times get dark, we can't see the help that's all around us. let 2-1-1 be your guiding light. for help with food, health care, and other resources. operator: 2-1-1, how can i help you? vo: call 211 or visit 211.org 2-1-1 get connected. get help. ♪

twitter restated its bots. he is backing out of this deal because twitter has too many bots. it is above 5%. liz: which is what elon suspected. >> excuse me? liz: that is what elon expected. >> that is the other part. he made no bones about that, that the bots were a huge problem. that twitter needs to get rid of it. only he can do that i can play this back and forth. i can tell you the ruling, when this thing is ruled on whether in february or september is going to be precedent-setting. the delaware chancery court is the go-to court for corporate law. the reason why it is it has a lot of experience. most companies are domiciled in delaware to get the experience of the delaware chancery court if they have issues. companies have issues all the time and one way or the other it will set a precedent how you can get out of these deals, and what it will allow. the problems, people can't get their arms around it, i'm talking to lawyers and bankers, just what are the sort of legal recourse for the court if musk says, i'm not going to, okay, you say i have to buy it and i'm not. john