"If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we will comply with the laws," Elon Musk said in a BBC broadcast live on Twitter Spaces

The accounts included several Indian journalists, Canadian poet Rupi Kaur and BBC News' Punjab bureau

The new rules confirm Vietnam's position as one of the world's most stringently controlled countries for social media firms

The social media platform has sued to hold Musk to his $44 billion takeover offer and a Delaware judge said it deserved a quick resolution of the deal's uncertainty

The suit is likely to be one of the most closely followed business battles of all time, pitching the colourful executive against the western commentariat's favourite arena

Musk's lawyers wrote to Twitter on Monday warning he may walk away unless the social media company provides him with more data

A group of investors is suing the CEO of Tesla for forcing down the Twitter stock price, amid claims his ability to finance the $44-billion acquisition of Twitter is in "major peril" due to a fall in the Tesla stock price.

The audit was prompted by Musk's demand that Twitter prove that phoney and spam accounts constituted no more than 5% of the total

The paper reported that the Tesla chief executive said he had a goal of dying on Mars

Elon Musk has raised $7bn in new funding for his attempted $44bn buyout of the social media platform

“No further TSLA sales planned after today," Musk wrote on Twitter after the US Securities and Exchange Commission filings became public on Thursday evening

Indian officials said last year that social media platforms may no longer be eligible to seek liability exemptions as intermediaries or the hosts of user content