Twitter filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Elon Musk, asking a Delaware judge to order the billionaire to move forward with his agreement to buy the social media platform, a move that follows weeks of sniping between Twitter and the world’s richest man.
The suit takes aim at Musk for trying to cancel his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter last week, accusing the billionaire of backing out of the agreement because his personal wealth has fallen—not because he’s worried about the prevalence of fake accounts, as he has argued.
Twitter accused Musk of conducting a “fishing expedition” in an attempt to get out of the deal, requesting troves of sensitive data to back up Twitter’s public statements about the number of spam accounts, even though minor inaccuracies wouldn’t be grounds to terminate the deal unless they threatened a “material adverse event,” the company argued.
The company pushed back on Musk for claiming it hasn’t handed over enough information on spam accounts, arguing it tried to cooperate with Musk’s “increasingly invasive and unreasonable requests,” including by offering some information it wasn’t contractually required to give up.
Twitter also accused Musk of violating the deal’s non-disparagement section by publicly criticizing the company and encouraging the Securities and Exchange Commission to open an investigation into it.
Twitter’s attorneys are seeking “specific performance,” meaning they’d like Delaware’s Court of Chancery to force Musk to close the deal on the agreed-upon terms.
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