To say that trust is broken between Twitter and Elon Musk is an understatement.
While the latter announced on Tuesday that it wanted to honor its promise to acquire the social network at the initial price of 44 billion dollars, the Californian company refuses to take the billionaire's words at face value.
Out of the question to put an end to the legal proceedings as long as the sale has not been definitively recorded, claims Twitter.
The network, scalded by the multiple flip-flops of the founder of SpaceX over the past six months, fears that the latter is still trying to play a bad trick on him.
"On the eve of the
trial
, the Musk camp tells us: 'Trust us, we are serious this time' and asks to be excused from a trial on the merits"
, deplore the lawyers of the social network.
Mistrust rose a notch when the billionaire's lawyers wanted to add a clause according to which the takeover would be conditional on obtaining a loan of 13 billion dollars.
"That…
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