Twitter sues Elon Musk for attempting to abandon $44 billion acquisition
by Richard Lawler from The Verge - All Posts on (#61BEJ)
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Twitter vs. Elon Musk is moving to the courts. The social media company filed a lawsuit against the world's richest man on Tuesday, saying that he is refusing to honor his obligations" under their agreement and seeking to make him complete the deal. Musk is trying to exit the $44 billion acquisition deal they announced on April 25th based on his claims Twitter has failed to satisfy his requests for information about bot activity and spam on the platform.
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," Twitter writes in the lawsuit, which was filed in the Delaware Court of...