https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/08/elon-musk-terminates-44-billion-twitter-purchase-deal-claims-firm-failed-to-give-fake-account-numbers/ > Throwing Twitter’s future into turmoil, billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to break his agreement to buy the Bay Area social-media giant for $44 billion, claiming it refused to tell him how many of the accounts on its platform were fake. > Musk had been trying to get that information since early May after reaching an agreement in late April to buy the San Francisco company, according to a letter to Twitter’s board filed Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk had demanded Twitter prove spam bots made up fewer than 5% of its users.