MUSK WIN: Twitter Board Unanimously Recommends Shareholders Approve Elon’s $44B Deal

Twitter’s Board of Directors told the platform’s shareholders to accept the world’s richest man’s $44 billion takeover deal, according to a new government filing.

The filing specifically told shareholders that it “unanimously recommends that you vote” for “the adoption of the merger agreement” with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk reportedly “listed the approval of the deal by shareholders as one of several ‘unresolved matters’ related to the Twitter deal” during an interview at the Qatar Economic Forum.  The document also stated that the board “unanimously” agreed that “the merger agreement is advisable and the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement are fair to, advisable and in the best interests of Twitter and its stockholders; and (2) adopted and approved the merger agreement, the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.”

The Associated Press analyzed that “If the deal were to close now, investors in the company would pocket a profit of $15.22 for each share they own.” This latest episode in the ongoing Twitter acquisition saga comes after the censorship-obsessed platform reportedly caved to Musk’s demands for the raw data on bot accounts. 

Musk apparently also triggered employees on Twitter when he repeated his support for freedom of speech at an all-staff conference June 16. “I think people should be allowed to say, you know, pretty outrageous things that are within the bounds of the law,” Musk stated. “The standard is much more than not offending people….The standard is — should be — that [Twitter users] are very entertained and informed.” 

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack team has been on the frontlines exposing how Twitter in particular unleashed a vendetta to wipe out any speech that contradicts the leftist narrative on gender, politics, economics and other things. In fact, out of the 3,957 total cases of Big Tech censorship logged in MRC CensorTrack’s database, a whopping 2,153 of those cases (54 percent) were from Twitter alone.

The most notorious examples of Twitter censorship logged in MRC CensorTrack’s database involved the New York Post Bombshell about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal before the 2020 election 

Twitter was the most censored Big Tech company according to a recent MRC CensorTrack Study. Twitter did not only lock the account, PoSt’s Reporting the news took place over 17 days. It even targeted one Congressman’s most powerful committees. 

Tweeted the GOP House Judiciary Committee: “Twitter blocked users from tweeting the #nypost story about Hunter Biden. We put the link on our site for everyone to see and share. 

The committee published a press release that contained a republished version of  the New York Post article. Also, the press release linked to the original article. Users were redirected to this press release when they clicked the link. 

MRC CensorTrack found  that users writ large could not tweet the story or any pictures of or included inPost story.  Big Tech’s overall cancellation of the Hunter Biden story helped shift the 2020 election in Biden’s favor. A whopping 45 percent of Biden voters surveyed in a Media Research Center poll weren’t aware of the Hunter Biden scandal in part because Big Tech censored it. Full knowledge about the Hunter Biden scam would have led 9.4% to abandon Donald Trump as Democratic candidate. This resulted in him winning all six of his swing states, and he receiving 311 electoral votes.

Musk appears to be ready to assume the control of the platform and to make important changes to its overblown censorship apparatus. This could mean that Silicon Valley oligarchs are losing one of their core tools to restrict online speech before the 2022 midterm election.

Conservatives under attack Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. Contact us at CensorTrack if you feel your voice has been blocked. Use the contact formHelp us to hold Big Tech responsible.