{"id":77256,"date":"2022-07-11T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/elon-musk-responds-to-twitter-s-threat-to-sue-him-over-reneging-on-deal-with-a-meme"},"modified":"2022-07-11T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:02:00","slug":"elon-musk-responds-to-twitter-s-threat-to-sue-him-over-reneging-on-deal-with-a-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/elon-musk-responds-to-twitter-s-threat-to-sue-him-over-reneging-on-deal-with-a-meme","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Responds to Twitter&#8217;s Threat to Sue Him Over Reneging on Deal &#8212; With a Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Shearer\/Getty ImagesElon Musk, meme aficionado and the world&#8217;s richest person, issued his first public response to Twitter&#8217;s vow that it will haul him into court to enforce the terms of his $44 billion buyout offer for the company.Musk, just after midnight ET Sunday, tweeted a meme showing the celebrity CEO laughing at the latest turn of events. It focuses on the mega-billionaire&#8217;s central claim for bailing on the Twitter deal: that, according to Musk, the company has stonewalled on providing evidence to back up its assertion that spam and fake accounts on Twitter make up less than 5% of total daily active users.&#8220;They said I couldn&#8217;t buy Twitter,&#8221; the post reads, accompanied by images of a progressively more mirthful Musk. &#8220;Then they wouldn&#8217;t disclose bot info. Now they want to force me to buy Twitter in court. Now they have to disclose bot info in court.&#8221;Twitter has hired M&amp;A powerhouse law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &amp; Katz to represent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, meme aficionado and the world&#8217;s richest person, issued his first public response to Twitter&#8217;s vow that it will haul him into court to enforce the terms of his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,27,311],"class_list":["post-77256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-meme"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}