Defining this case in the public imagination is key for both parties. And by launching a sneak attack against Elon Musk, Twitter just won a round of the public-facing bout. KevinTDugan writes
Ouch … Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images What a weird mess of a legal saga this Elon Musk–Twitter suit is turning out to be. It has been less than a month since the social-media company filed a complaint in Delaware Chancery Court trying to force Musk, the world’s richest man, to buy it for $44 billion.
Another remarkable aspect of Twitter’s sneak-attack filing is that Musk’s side had explicitly warned the court about that potential tactic — but McCormick apparently didn’t care. This was all pointed out by Ann Lipton, a business professor at Tulane University who has been following the case: Given this much leeway, Twitter’s lawyers do what any good attorneys would in their position and try to mess with their opponents’ heads, skewering the still-under-seal response from Musk as “fact-free” and full of gimmicks.
So how did Musk come to feel so strongly that he was in the right about bots that he was willing to terminate the deal? Apparently, through a website called the Botometer. Here’s Twitter’s description of the site: “Musk’s ‘preliminary expert estimates’ are nothing more than the output of running the wrong data through a generic web tool,” according to the suit. But truly, this could be the coup de grâce when it comes to undermining Musk’s analysis.
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