The best burns Twitter’s lawyers deployed to deny Elon Musk’s claims

Twitter admits that Musk is a Twitter user | Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images

So I don't know entirely what's in Elon Musk's counterclaims against Twitter - they are still under seal - but I did get an inkling today, when Twitter dropped its response. It's spicy! Rather than let Musk get his complaints out first, Twitter went ahead and released a blow-by-blow response, the better with which to dunk on Elon along the way.

I do love this:

The Counterclaims are a made-for-litigation tale that is contradicted by the evidence and common sense

Usually legal documents have arcane, passive-aggressive digs at the other party in them. Twitter's lawyers, however, came out swinging in their reply to Musk's counterclaims. Maybe that's because they know how many people will read these documents; maybe it's just because they're...

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