Musk confidentially countersues Twitter over nixed acquisition bid: reports

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: The Hill

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confidentially filed a countersuit against Twitter after the company sued him for terminating a deal to buy the social media platform for $44 billion earlier this month, according to multiple news reports.

The Friday countersuit was not made publicly available. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment to The Hill on the development.


The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Musk is expected to counterclaim that the number of monetizable daily active users was changed by Twitter before the deal was expected to go through.

In addition, the Journal reported Musk will likely claim that Twitter did not respond when the SpaceX CEO’s team made inquiries on spam number data that the team claimed were not sufficiently answered by the social media company.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3580401-musk-confidentially-countersues-twitter-over-nixed-acquisition-bid-reports/

[Roy Rolling]

1. ETTD

Musk wanted to try on a Trump clown suit and be a swaggering dickwad.

Twitter beat him in the financial arena where the score is tallied in dollars and cents.

Musk wanted to buy Twitter to allow Shitler and Greene accounts back online after removal? Fuck that.

Now pay the man for being a moron like TFG. Everything T**** touches dies.

[SunSeeker]

2. Pay up Musk, you deadbeat!

[RAB910]

3. Why does the media kiss Musk's wrinkly ass??? "confidentially"?!?! what bullshit

[CatWoman]

10. i know, right????

why screw up a headline by padding it with that word?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. The pleading was filed under seal and so we do not get to see it

Hopefully there will be a redacted version released

[marble falls]

4. I just love it when emotionally challanged uber-wealthy twits pull hair.

[efhmc]

5. Whatever. No one nowhere with a bit of brains thought this was going to happen.

Mush is an off beat younger brand of TFG. He has more brains, addled though they are, some real money but is a scamster like TFG. Wants something, grabs for it. The deal goes south because the financial truth is he cannot afford it and it was a whim which now has floated away,

[bucolic_frolic]

6. The confidential lawsuit seems to be public knowledge and the contents so thin as to be undisclosed?

If he didn't put conditions on his original offer there's not a lot of wiggle room.

[howardmappel]

7. Bad headline

If countersuit filed, will be publicly available on the Delaware Chancery Court. IMHO, he is going down on this and the court will force him to complete the purchase on the original terms. So sad.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. That jagoff is just trying to delay being forced to follow through on his offer until...

the stock price goes back up.

Fuck him and his John Galt cosplaying.

[bronxiteforever]

9. Horrible headline. Does someone "meekly" counter sue.

The fact is he countersued. “Confidently countersued” is an absurdity. I don’t even know what it means. Embarrassing that this type of journalism is allowed.

[Historic NY]

11. Wait until Twitter downloads a tyranscript of his boasting

I hope they get him on the severability clause.