Attempt to obtain Twitter according to Elon Musk It became the most surreal telenovela. What looked like a love story that would make the CEO of Tesla the absolute owner of the social network ended up in court after he unexpectedly withdrew his offer. Another of them joined Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk Pieter Zatko against the company where he was head of security for an alleged careless approach to information security and the management of bots and fake accounts.
At the expense of how all the legal fuss that has arisen over the matter will end, lawyers for Twitter and Elon Musk met in court on Tuesday to determine whether Zatka’s claims can be added to the case they are facing. them. The company behind the social network has been largely silent on what its former security chief had to say.
It seems that Twitter’s lawyers didn’t take too kindly to Zatek, seeing him as a person who was unhappy with the company and that his lawsuit was basically filed to damage and make the merger process more difficult, in addition to arguing that the allegations from spam on the social network.
Another argument put forward by Twitter’s lawyers is that Musk was looking for reasons to cancel the deal before Zatka’s complaint was made public, suggesting that the Tesla and SpaceX boss knew something about it. It added ka a message that Musk himself sent to banker Morgan Stanley on May 3, who said the following: “Let’s slow down for a few days… If we’re headed for World War 3, it won’t make sense to buy Twitter“. According to Twitter lawyers that would be the real reason that would lead Musk to withdraw his offer and not the arguments he used around bots, monetizable users and what Zaťko allegedly revealed.
Musk’s lawyers seem more favorable to Pieter Zatka, who was considered a prestigious manager and was once offered a position as a civil servant in the US government. In addition, they insisted on adjourning the trial until October, stressing that their client’s stance was not related to Zaťek’s lawsuit and that Twitter intentionally withheld damaging information.
Zatko’s defense took a similar tack, arguing that the public disclosure of his allegations was not intended to benefit Musk, while the social network insists there was a connection between Musk and Zatko.
As we can see, there is a good soap opera here, with two apparent parties blaming each other for Musk blowing up the purchase agreement. Since Twitter claims that Musk and Zatko maneuvered to harm the companywhile the Tesla CEO’s defense says that his client is not to blame for Zaťko suing.
We’ll see how it all ends, but between Elon Musk’s unpredictability and the fact that everyone has a price (that is, sold for money), it cannot be ruled out that the matter will end in a three-way deal.
