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Tesla boss Elon Musk tweeted that his plans to buy the social media platform were on pause over reports about the number of bots and fake accounts.
Elon Musk's legal team has warned Twitter that the Tesla boss could walk away from a $44 billion deal to buy the social media giant, accusing it of breaching its contractual obligations by not sharing information about how fake accounts are calculated. We take a closer look. Plus, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Palo Alto, Apple launches a redesigned MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro with a new chip that makes them faster and more powerful.
The Twitter accounts of hundreds of companies and public figures have been hacked in a major cybersecurity breach at the social media platform. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Kim Kardashian were among the people affected - with tweets posted on their accounts seeking payments of Bitcoin, promising it would be doubled. Twitter said the attack targeted employee systems to gain access to the accounts. More than $100,000 is believed to have been sent to the hackers.
The incursion appears to be centred around a cryptocurrency scam. The tweets, which were fake, offered to send people $2,000 for every $1,000 they sent to a bitcoin address.
After Elon Musk's $44bn bid to buy Twitter was accepted, rumors exploded on social media, claiming that Musk reinstated Donald Trump on the platform; Trump's Twitter account is still suspended. Then, in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial, Heard's legal team is getting grilled in the court of public opinion, over makeup claims. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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