It was in Delaware that the first legal act in the dispute between Elon Musk and Twitter opened on Tuesday July 19.
An American judge from this small eastern American state set the start of Twitter's trial against Elon Musk on Tuesday, July 19, for October 2022 for a period of five days, granting the social network's request for a rapid procedure. .
The platform had launched lawsuits against the boss of Tesla and SpaceX on Tuesday, July 12, to force him to honor his commitment to acquire it for 44 billion dollars.
Elon Musk's lawyers had filed an appeal on Friday for hostilities not to be opened before next year.
They assure that the experts will have to analyze "mountains of data" to prove, as the multi-billionaire claims, that the platform is full of automated accounts and spam, well beyond the proportion of 5% officially indicated.
This is the reason that Elon Musk had given for unilaterally ending the agreement to take over the social network which he considers to be a "public square" essential to "democracy".
With AFP
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