Elon Musk is taking Twitter private in $44 billion deal

Elon Musk-MAIN_0.jpg — Musk is using one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history to take private the 16-year-old social networking platform.

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April 25, 2022 11:47 AM

NEW YORK -- Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion cash on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world's richest person.

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