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Why is Twitter using a ‘poison pill’ on billionaire Elon Musk?

Twitter’s board has adopted a ‘poison pill’ a day after billionaire Elon Musk made a eye-watering offer to buy the platform

Known as a “limited-duration shareholder rights plan”… twitter is fending off a hostile takeover

The move will prevent anyone from having more than a 15 per cent stake in the company.

It does this by allowing others to buy additional shares at a discount.

This major move comes a day after billionaire Elon Musk offered to buy the company for $43 billion dollars.

The Twitter board says it needed this plan of attack because of the “unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire Twitter”.

A poison pill is usually one of those last lines of defence against a company takeover.

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