Irrelevant (in court), and that's why Musk's lawyers are not focusing on the bots, but rather on the fact that the Twitter board have not fulfilled their contractual obligations to provide him with that which they agreed to.
You appear to be the only person who understands it that way. The reciprocal agreement that each party pay the other 1 billion dollars is not the "poison pill".
The fact that a court will struggle to understand that doesn't make it untrue.
In simple terms for freedom of speech to be absolute and only subject to the bounds of what is lawful then any terms and conditions creating any limitation on that speech via any means (automated or other) is inconsistent with the goal of Musks proverbial town square.lol, that I know
Fair enough, we're getting side tracked. But in the end, the automation argument, bots and falsely magnifying your views, stands. It's against Twitter's rules. Signing up you're acknowledging them. Violating them can result in action against you, most probably a banning and you playing games, new bots ... but worst case legal action if you persist. If Twitter decides to not enforce them, it opens up a vastly new terrain of action against them and claims of prejudice. Not making an effort to monitor for something acknowledged in the T&Cs makes for fun times, since you cannot deny having knowledge of the possibility if harm were to occur.
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Why would a court struggle? The practice of estimation of reach or audience has been around for radio, television and print media since advertising was a revenue stream. Web is no different. A court will simply review the data along with the qualification of how it’s reached and see if it’s reasonable or not.
Let's see what happens.
Twitter wants to expedite the trial and get it started in September and it's rather curious that Musk is opposing the rush stating its unjustifiable. Apparently expediency is a tactic now
Okayyyy ...
Isn’t that the point of free speech and what everyone was celebrating? No one cared about bots.
Twitter wants to expedite the trial and get it started in September and it's rather curious that Musk is opposing the rush stating its unjustifiable. Apparently expediency is a tactic now
To push it to Feb 2023?
I thought the whole point of Elon buying twitter was so he can fix it. He recognised it is broken and that it has immense potential, if he is in control and things are done right. Is he pretending now that he wasn't aware of the infestation of bot accounts? I'm pretty sure he proposed solutions to the problem even before putting in an offer to buy twitter.
I doubt an overstatement of less than 1% based on an estimated metric qualified as such is a material difference in valuation considering it has no impact on Twitters financial performance or user growth.
He also explicitly insisted that he was not interested in making money from Twitter and wanted to buy it for idealistic reasons like free speech. His words, I believe, were something about how “having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilisation'
Scenarios to fix Twitter:
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