The American billionaire has given Jack Dorsey an injunction to provide a whole series of documents within the framework of the battle he launched to extricate from the buyout agreement at $ 44 billion from the social network .
Le Monde with AFP
The battle between Elon Musk and Twitter continues. According to documents made public Monday, August 22, former boss of Twitter Jack Dorsey received an injunction from the American billionaire to provide him with all the files or communications in connection with the buyout agreement between Mr. Musk and the social network, as well as any information on false accounts or on the way Twitter calculates the number of its active users.
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, had signed an agreement of $ 44 billion to buy the social network, before breaking it unilaterally in early July. He believes that Twitter lied about the proportion of automated accounts and spam on his platform, and even said that the social network has “fraud” by deliberately increasing the number of monetisable accounts. The social network says that spam represents less than 5 % of users.
A trial must open on October 17
As soon as the repurchase of buyout, Twitter attacked Mr. Musk in court to force him to honor his promise. Elon Musk countered, with a complaint in which he asked the court to release him from the agreement and to condemn Twitter to pay him damages.
All documents available on these subjects at Jack Dorsey since January 2019 are affected by the injunction of Elon Musk. Jack Dorsey left the general management of Twitter in November 2021.
The lawyers of the two parties have been engaged for weeks a fierce battle with assignments to appear and injunctions to provide documents. A trial must open on October 17 before the Delaware Court of Chancery, a court specialized in business law, and last five days.