Elon Musk sent Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, an injunction to provide material to help him exit the social network’s $44 billion buyout deal.
Documents released on Monday show that Dorsey received a court order asking him to give Musk any communications or documents related to the acquisition agreement signed in April.
In addition, Dorsey would be required to provide information about the number of fake accounts or how Twitter calculates the number of active users.
Musk, owner of electric car maker Tesla, accuses Twitter of fraud for sharing allegedly misleading information with him about key aspects of his business, such as the number of automated accounts, which the social network calculates at less than 5% of users.
Twitter accuses Musk of inventing an excuse to escape a deal he no longer likes.
Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter and who presided over the company until November of last year, supported Musk’s purchase intent at the time.
The agreement included a clause that if it failed, the party responsible for its breakup would have to pay a $1 billion release clause under certain circumstances.
Twitter has asked its shareholders to accept the deal and has scheduled a vote on the merger for September 13.
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