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Photo: Saul Martinez (Getty Images)The Biden Administration considered looking into Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter over national security concerns, Bloomberg first reported. Musk bought the company for $44 billion in October which lead to questions about whether any of the foreign investors involved in the acquisition could gain access to users’ data. Among the investors Musk recruited to help finance the Twitter deal include Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund,…

The banner hung above the New York Stock Exchange back in 2013 when the company first went public. Now that the company is private again, there’s quite a few ex-stock holders who are hoping to see a return on their investment in Elon Musk.Photo: Christopher Penler (Shutterstock)While Elon Musk’s massive $44 billion buyout of Twitter might seem like a one-man show, it’s really a kind of Suicide Squad of big tech moguls and financiers coming together in a strange rogue’s gallery reunion. Not only were Musk’s personal rich…

Elon Musk in Norway on August 29, 2022 (left) and former president Donald Trump on October. 27, 2022, at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Doral, FL.Photo: AFP (Getty Images)Elon Musk fired at least four senior executives at Twitter and is expected to make himself CEO after finalizing the deal to buy the company for $44 billion on Thursday. Users of the social media platform are bracing for sweeping changes to the platform, including the reintroduction of white supremacists like former president Donald Trump, who was…

Elon Musk has pledged to close his $44 billion Twitter Inc deal in a video conference call with bankers who are helping fund the deal, Bloomberg News reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The banks have finished putting together the final credit agreement and are in the process of signing the documentation, according to the report, in one of the last steps in moving funds to Musk. Twitter and Musk's lawyers were not immediately available for comment. Read Also Musk has pledged to provide $46.5 billion in…

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on October 24, 2022 (left) Elon Musk in Stavanger, Norway on August 29, 2022.Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Carina Johansen (Getty Images)The White House has said that Elon Musk’s recent deals, including his takeover of Twitter and operations of Starlink internet in Ukraine, are not under national security review. And while that would seem like a denial of the original reports from last week by Bloomberg News about the deals, there’s seemingly still some wiggle room in what was…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway on August 29, 2022.Photo: Carina Johansen / NTB / AFP (Getty Images)Elon Musk plans to cut Twitter’s workforce by almost 75% after he finalizes the deal to buy the social media company, a move that’s likely to cause chaos among employees, according to a new report from the Washington Post. And that’s to say nothing of Musk’s plan to reinstate the accounts of far-right figures like former president Donald Trump.The news comes…

Photo: Jed Jacobsohn (AP)What does it cost to sell out and hand over the private information of the critics for a despotic regime? Apparently $300,000 and a nice watch. A former Twitter employee was convicted on six of his original 11 counts of operating as an agent for Saudi Arabia. The verdict came down late Tuesday, and all that’s left is sentencing, which could be up to 20 years in federal prison.Federal prosecutors said that former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo, a U.S. resident born in Egypt who held dual…