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Twitter said it would hold a shareholder meeting to vote on Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the company on Sept. 13.
The stockholder meeting will begin at 10:00 am PT and will be available via webcast. Shareholders will be able to watch the meeting live and then vote, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Twitter’s board of directors has previously urged its shareholders to approve the sale of the company to Musk.
Musk notified Twitter on July 8 that he planned to cancel the acquisition, citing allegations that the company failed to properly account for the number of spam and fraud accounts on its service, among other disputes.
Twitter then sued Musk to enforce the deal, alleging that the Tesla boss “refuses to fulfill his obligations to Twitter and its shareholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests “.
The case is due to go to trial in October, although the two sides are still fighting over the date.