Tesla CEO Elon Musk is well cognisant that his tweets can be himmillionsandland himin court of law . Does that give him interruption ? sure as shooting not . Twitter , which is action the billionaire forattempting the terminatehis $ 44 billion deal to acquire the companionship , is no doubt giddy over Musk ’s lack of self - ascendance and did n’t hesitate to cite his tweets as evidence in itslawsuit .
Filed on Tuesday inDelaware ’s Chancery Court , the societal media company include quite a few of the technical school billionaire ’s tweets to make its case . Twitter is suing Musk to compel him to go through with his signed agreement to acquire it . The company argues that once the market turned turned — which move Tesla , the billionaire ’s largest author of wealth , and other tech companies — Musk wanted out of the deal and tried to fabricate a justification to draw out out .
Musk disputes Twitter ’s account and statedthrough his lawyersthat the social media platform had outrage the uniting agreement by refusing to share information on spam bot and misrepresenting the figure of spam bot on its platform . Twitter had , in fact , shared data with Musk on that theme . He also points out that Twitted fired top executive , slack hiring , and fail to retain key personnel — action he say institute a trespass .
Twitter cited more than a dozen of Elon Musk’s tweets in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The company seeks to force him to complete the merger deal, which the billionaire has moved to terminate.Screenshot:Jody Serrano / Gizmodo
While it will be a few month before this display case proceed to test , if the court decides to let it proceed , we can still take out our magnifying glasses and test the evidence ourselves . Up next , you ’ll find the 10 Musk tweet that Twitter thought process were so important it included screenshots in a multi - billion - buck cause . They are not , by far , the only tweet reference in the lawsuit .
Do they help the company ’s case or is it a fail ? You be the jurist .
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