The billionaire had $44 billion for Twitter in April, but wanted to get rid of the takeover in July. Twitter would have too few real people among its users and too many bots. Musk later argued for another reason to get out of the takeover of the social media platform, namely criticism of the company’s leadership by a whistleblower.
Musk’s legal team is now allowed to use certain information brought forward by the whistleblower. Musk’s lawyers previously wrote in court documents that the whistleblower’s allegations show that Twitter has violated the terms of the takeover. They also spoke of “blatant flaws” in hacker protection and other platform privacy issues.
Musk also wanted to postpone the lawsuit because of the new information. The judge did not agree: the trial normally starts on October 17 before a special court in Delaware.
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