The legal battle of the year breaks out: Twitter takes Musk to court to force him to buy the social network

• Controversy Is Elon Musk above the law?

• Q&A The keys to the legal battle between Elon Musk and Twitter

Twitter

has fulfilled its threat and has taken

to court to force him to buy that social network for

(44,000 million euros).

The richest man in the world, with assets that yesterday amounted to 215,000 million euros, according to calculations by the

could thus be forced to acquire the company, despite the fact that on Friday of last week he said that he was withdrawing his offer alleging that Twitter had not given him information about the number of false accounts ('bots') on the platform, and that the same The company had breached the terms of the agreement by firing two directors and 'freezing' the increase in the workforce due to the general situation of uncertainty in the online advertising market.

Twitter's lawyers expect the case to be seen for sentencing in two months.

According to all the experts, those reasons have no credibility, and Musk faces a very difficult legal process that he will try to win, probably using his messages on Twitter itself.

is what would happen in the event that the courts of the state of Delaware, where the platform is headquartered, agreed with Twitter, but Musk refused to comply with the sentence.

In its lawsuit, Twitter claims that "having put on a public show for Twitter to be put up for sale, and having proposed and then signed an amicable purchase agreement, Musk apparently believes that he - unlike any other party subject to the law

contract -

is free to change his mind, insult the company, alter its activities, destroy shareholder value, and walk away.

However, the judicial system of the state of Delaware has historically always rejected - with one exception, in

- the arguments of those who have tried to reverse a purchase they had signed.

But

the sheer size of the operation;

the possibility that he refuses to comply with a judgment against him with few consequences;

and the defendant's own ability to pressure the judges via Twitter.

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