Twitter Moves to Block Elon Musk From Increasing Stake
The social-media company takes the step a day after the tech entrepreneur made a $43 billion unsolicited takeover bid
Twitter confirmed its board would review Elon Musk’s proposal.
PHOTO: LAURA MORTON FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
By Cara Lombardo
Updated April 15, 2022 12:37 pm ET
Twitter Inc. moved to prevent Elon Musk from significantly increasing his stake the day after he made a $43 billion unsolicited takeover bid for the social-media company.
The company on Friday adopted a so-called poison pill that makes it difficult for him to increase his stake beyond 15%. The billionaire founder of Tesla Inc. already owns a more than 9% stake that he revealed earlier this month.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Twitter was weighing such a move.
Poison pills, also called shareholder-rights plans, are legal maneuvers that make it hard for shareholders to build their stakes beyond a set point by triggering an option for others to buy more shares at a discount. They are often used by companies that receive hostile takeover bids to buy themselves time to consider their options.
So now Elon just needs to hint that maybe he will sell off after all......Price starts to tank and the board looks even worse. This is getting good.
Sell, then rebuy that 9% at a lower price lol
Or DWAC rebuys at a lower price.
special acquisition companies like dwac are used to bring private companies public. they are never used to acquire publicly traded company like twtr. and its already announced its acquisition. too many people talk about dwac not even knowing what a spac is.
Nah, no reason for DWAC to invest in that shitty company.
That shitty company is a major tool in the culture war. It’s an asset.
The company and platform are not shitty. It's who runs them that is.
u/basilpesto I think you're missing the point. While yes, twitter is the internet's hairy ass hole, it's where the majority of the internet is.
If Trump took over the site he could change it for the better and get rid of the censorship and reinstate banned accounts
isn't it ? LOL
He needs to get out and then announce he sold. The problem is that move also hurts the shareholders who own Tesla.
Tesla is already being attacked by the SEC and DoJ. Its stock is dropping already. Elon needs to power into the attack because we all know what happens when you bend the knee and back down to the left.
Edit: Also, many of the same big names own Tesla, that own Twitter....
Double down against the hedges that are now shorting twitter waiting for the sell off dip
He needs to actually sell before he announces it. To do otherwise would be market manipulation and he'll get a slap on the wrist. It would be even worse at this time because the SEC and DOJ are launching a joint investigation against him.
And yet the SEC ignores the drunken cunt-face and all the other “elected” insider-trading criminals. The whole thing is a scam.
Wait, which drunken cunt-face are you referring to? I can think of several politicians who fit that bill of lading...
Sec and doj are going to ruin themselves on this. It may be what the actual target is since we are cleaning up governme t and we k ow sec doesn't go after the elite for stealing.
You may be right. That would be a brilliant move. Is he setting the stage to show how corrupt the SEC is??
Isn't the poison pill thing illegal?
I know company's do it, but they don't want to get caught doing it... or they used to
They're in legal documents, so they're likely not illegal.
If the stocks tank then wouldnt they be picked up cheaply by a possible Twitter ally. I'm not too educated on this stuff.
Bingo... I think that's the plan.
That won't work. BlackRock and Vanguard will get the green light to purchase those shares.
Wont that make it look like the system is rigged to everyone watching? The thing is, we dont really know what Elons goal is here. What if it is to strip away all of the facade and reveal that twitter is (and always was) a propaganda arm of the government. He doesnt actually have to complete the purchase to expose plenty. He certainly has many eyes on the fight. And wouldnt you know it, Trump and TS are just waiting in the wings to go full launch.....
You may be right, this may be about exposing sec very dirty practices.
They are going out until no bullets are left. They've long ago abandoned a lightly gathered semblance of a faint specter of respectability; they've long have none. We know it's rigged. They know we know. They know we know they know.
I don’t think government(s) give a crap about if it looks rigged or not, anymore l. It’s so obvious now the two tiered justice system. Question is who gains or who loses. If the loser is a “somebody”, justice happens. If not, then laws broken will be ignored.
In their eyes it's just business. In ours it's treason.
Exactly.
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Destroy Twitter, Truth Social becomes the #1 social media company
Added bonus if Elon manages to aquire twitter and merge the tech and infrastructure to TS. At what point do you declare a digital platorm a utility?
Elon's two weeks ahead of these socialist fucks. They don't know who they're dealing with.
Explain why the stock would tank if he sold. I assume vanguard would buy them up quickly keeping Twitter solvent.
Well, I would think it would dip because if Elon sells, many many others will too.
But our anon fren PaNiX brings up (From further up the thread) another twist:
Kind of hard to short sell while everyone is watching without GME x1000. Yet, I doubt they want to have to buy it all up before the dip......Elon is has set the chess board up so well, they have no where to go. I believe it is his move....
No. Sue
The BoD has a duty to look after the STOCKHOLDERS. Musk offered 25% more than market value for the stock
The BOD neglected the beat interests of the stockholders, for philosophical reasons. That is in direct contradiction to their contract, and yes they do get paid to be on the BoD
So they can be sued PERSONALLY and the company can be sued too
Then immediately invest the money in TS.