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Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal

Elon Musk's Twitter profile is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration. [Reuters]

Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla (TSLA.O) and the world's richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter (TWTR.N) because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.

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