Twitter wants Elon to pay up.
) states."This repudiation follows a long list of material contract breaches by Musk that have cast a pall over Twitter and its business. Twitter brings this action to enjoin Musk from further breaches, to compel Musk to fulfill his legal obligations, and to compel consummation of the merger upon satisfaction of the few outstanding conditions."
The lawsuit accuses Musk of repeatedly changing and broadening his disclosure demands, which Twitter attempted to keep up with in order to avoid damaging its value or scuttling the deal.
Despite those efforts, the suit says Musk"exhibited little interest in understanding Twitter's process for estimating spam accounts," and in fact he acknowledged that he had not read a detailed summary of the sampling process that was provided to him in May. "From the outset, defendants’ information requests were designed to try to tank the deal. Musk’s increasingly outlandish requests reflect not a genuine examination of Twitter’s processes but a litigation-driven campaign to try to create a record of non-cooperation on Twitter’s part," the suit states."When Twitter nonetheless bent over backwards to address the increasingly burdensome requests, Musk resorted to false assertions that it had not.
Predictably, it also contains numerous examples of Musk's infamous tweeting habits, including the time he tweeted"💩" at Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
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