Elon Musk Takes Swipe at Twitter’s Lawsuit Threat, Suggests Bot Information Will Be Disclosed in Court

Elon Musk shared a collage of four images of him with various expressions, along with remarks on the Twitter deal.

By ANI | Updated: 11 July 2022 16:00 IST

Elon Musk Takes Swipe at Twitter’s Lawsuit Threat, Suggests Bot Information Will Be Disclosed in Court

Elon Musk has reacted to Twitter’s threat to sue to the Tesla and SpaceX CEO

Highlights

Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Twitter who has threatened to sue the CEO
Musk shared a post in which he has a montage of images of him laughing
He commented that Twitter had said it would not disclose bot information

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Twitter who has threatened to sue the American billionaire over the termination of the $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,400 crore) deal.

Taking a jibe at the microblogging site, Musk shared a meme which talks how the social media company had said that they wouldn't have to disclose bot information as the entrepreneur couldn't buy the company. Bot information shows data on fake and spam accounts, which perform automated, repetitive, pre-defined tasks.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022

Musk shared a post in which he has a montage of images of him laughing and four remarks he had made on the Twitter deal.

The first remark read, "They said I couldn't buy Twitter".

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The next one said "Then, they wouldn't disclose Bot information." This is followed by "Now they want to force me to buy Twitter in court." The last one reads, "Now, they have to disclose bot info in court."

As soon as Musk tweeted, users chimed into the comment section and dropped hilarious comments.

A Twitter user shared another meme in the comments section which showed the social media company's anger over Musk backing out from the purchase deal but he replied that they failed to show him the number of spam accounts.

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Another user dropped a comment, "I love watching this in real time."

"You dropped this," commented another while referring to a crown.

Other quirky comment was, "Elon is playing chess while Twitter is playing checkers."

The tweet has over 265.6 thousand likes and 34.5 thousand retweets as of now.

On July 9 Musk had announced the termination of a $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,400 crore) Twitter purchase deal.

The American said he had decided to suspend the deal due to multiple breaches of the purchase agreement.

The Tesla CEO's team strongly believes that the proportion of spam and fake accounts is "wildly higher" than 5 percent, according to a letter sent to the microblogging platform by Musk's team.

In April, Musk reached an acquisition agreement with Twitter at $54.20 (roughly Rs. 4,300) per share in a transaction valued at approximately $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,400 crore). However, Musk put the deal on hold in May to allow his team to review the veracity of Twitter's claim that less than 5 percent of accounts on the platform are bots or spam.

In June, Musk had openly accused the microblogging website of breaching the merger agreement and threatened to walk away and call off the acquisition of the social media company for not providing the data he had requested on spam and fake accounts.

Musk alleged that Twitter is "actively resisting and thwarting his information rights" as outlined by the deal, CNN reported, citing the letter he sent to Twitter's head of legal, policy and trust, Vijaya Gadde.

He demanded that Twitter turn over information about its testing methodologies to support its claims that bots and fake accounts constitute less than 5 percent of the platform's active user base, a figure the company has consistently stated for years in boilerplate public disclosures.

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