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Elon Musk will address Twitter employees for the first time at a virtual all-hands meeting later today, during which he’ll field questions from the company he’s in the process of buying, per CEO Parag Agwal.

💰🐦 Let's back up... In late April, Twitter agreed to Musk’s proposal to take the company private at $54.20 per share (aka $44 billion) after he declined their offer for a board seat.

• Weeks later, Musk said the deal was on hold over concerns about the company inaccurately reporting the number of spam accounts on its platform; most recently, Musk earlier this month threatened to pull out of the transaction entirely.
• Twitter’s board responded by saying it planned to enforce the merger. Days later, the company also agreed to give Musk access to the its “firehose” of data, meaning all 500+ million daily tweets and basic info about the accounts and devices they tweet from.

📸 The big picture: Musk has said in tweets, regulatory filings and interviews that he would make a number of changes to Twitter upon buying it, including offering longer character limits, creating an edit button, and reversing all permanent user bans (including the one on former President Trump).