This locked gate blocks the road leading to the property near the Hawaii Country Club in Waipahu where the Occupied Forces Hawaii Army has taken over the property, claiming sovereignty. The justifications put forward by the occupying group are a mishmash of unsupported beliefs about Hawaii land titles, lingering historical resentments of the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom, rejection of the existing government and its laws as “fake,” beliefs about “allodial” land rights adopted from so-called “sovereign citizen” groups on the anti-government fringe, elements of the “straw man” conspiracy theory, and a healthy dose of plain old magical thinking.
They proceeded to lock out the property’s registered owner along with a company that was leasing the land, confiscating equipment, crops and business records, and blocking attempts by the landowner and lessee to reenter or inspect the property. The unidentified group took over a 5-acre lot in an Oahu agricultural subdivision in September, and proclaimed themselves the rightful owners by “heirdom.” It was also reported on Wednesday that a Twitter’s chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde, had told employees a shareholder vote on the deal could come by late July or early August as both sides work towards completing the takeover.A small parcel of land in central Oahu is the site of another standoff between a group claiming ownership of the land based on Native Hawaiian ancestral rights, and a company holding the modern land title. Musk has questioned whether advertisers – who provide the majority of Twitter’s income – are getting value for money due to the bots issue, although Twitter has consistently stuck by the 5% figure in its quarterly earnings reports since 2014. They may use the reply function or direct messages to send adverts or scams to users, or represent attempts to influence public debate by tweeting political propaganda. When contacted for comment, Twitter referred the Guardian to a statement issued on Monday in which the company said it will “continue to cooperatively share information with Mr Musk to consummate the transaction in accordance with the terms of the merger agreement”.įake or spam accounts, known as bot accounts, are automated and not run by human users. Twitter shares rose 0.8% in afternoon trading to $40.45 following the reports, compared with the agreed deal price of $54.20 per share, indicating investor pessimism that the deal will happen even if the sharing of data could make it more difficult for Musk to terminate the deal. In short, it now seems that the standoff continues,” he said. “Even were Musk to secure access to the ‘firehose data’, it would be resource-intensive to review the data and may prove unsatisfactory to Musk. They said declining to present the information was a “material breach” of the deal agreement, which would allow Musk to walk away without paying the $1bn break fee written into the deal.Ĭarl Tobias, Williams chair in law at the University of Richmond, said that access to the data still might not satisfy Musk because of the sheer scale of information that he will have to sift through. In a letter to Twitter’s chief legal officer published on Monday, lawyers representing the Tesla chief executive said he believed the company was “actively resisting and thwarting” his rights to access data and information from the company under the agreement. The multibillionaire has expressed doubts over Twitter’s claim that fake and spam accounts represent less than 5% of its 229 million-strong user base.
Musk warned Twitter on Monday that he might walk away from his $44bn deal to acquire the company if it fails to provide the data on spam and fake accounts that he seeks. The New York Times also reported that Twitter would let Musk view its “firehose” of daily traffic, in response to legal threats that the deal would be in jeopardy otherwise. A number of companies already pay for access to the data, which includes a real-time record of tweets, the devices users tweet from and information about the accounts that tweet, the Post reported. The social media company will provide the world’s richest man with access to a stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted every day, according to the Washington Post.
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