Twitter has dismissed Elon Musk’s complaints that he doesn’t have enough information about spam and robot accounts as an “irrelevant sideshow”.
Elon Musk’s complaints that he doesn’t have enough information about spam and robot accounts as an “irrelevant sideshow” and urged a judge to hold a trial as soon as possible over his cancellation of a US$44-billion buyout of the company.
Musk, the world’s richest man, backed out of the deal to buy the platform on 8 July, accusing the company of not complying with the contract by providing information to assess how prevalent the bots are on the social media platform. He says it will take months to conduct a forensic review and asked for a February trial.Musk was fully aware of the bot issue when he signed the deal to buy the company, Twitter’s lawyers said in the filing.
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