Elon Musk Wants To Delay Twitter Trial Until Next Year

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Elon Musk's legal team wants to delay the start of a lawsuit with Twitter to allow time for more of a forensic audit of Twitter’s bot problem. For Twitter users, one of the biggest events of this year was the confirmation that Elon Musk was buying the platform. However, Musk’s eagerness to buy Twitter faded within months, leading to a situation where Twitter now wants the courts to decide what happens next.

It was only April when Twitter made a move to buy Twitter. The offer was initially unwelcomed, but Musk was able to push a deal through. At the time, it seemed almost certain that the SpaceX and Tesla CEO would eventually take control of Twitter. Within a month of the deal being agreed, Musk started questioning how many bots were active on Twitter. In early July, Musk pulled out of the deal.

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This all then led to Twitter filing a lawsuit earlier this week in an attempt to either force Musk to buy Twitter or to try and bound Musk into paying some sort of compensation for pulling out of the agreement. As to be expected, Musk’s legal team disagrees with the lawsuit, and if it is to happen, would prefer to have more time to prepare. According to Bloomberg, Musk’s team would like the trial to start no sooner than February of next year. The reason, it's a complicated case, and once that requires extensive preparation of data.

Twitter wants the trial to take place as soon as possible. According to a ‘motion to expedite proceedings’ filed earlier this week, Twitter is seeking a four-day trial to take place this September. Twitter specifically requested the completion of the trial to be in September due to an October 24th drop-dead date set out in the original