The co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, will be questioned in Tuesday morning by lawyers in connection to the lawsuit between Elon Musk and Twitter over the $44 billion acquisition deal.
Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter last November but remained on the board until May. He was subponeaed by Musk’s team for a range of information, including documents and communications regarding the merger and those “reflecting, referring to, or relating to the impact or effect of false or spam accounts on Twitter’s business and operations.”
Back in July, Elon Musk moved to terminate the deal, citing that Twitter misrepresented the number of fake and spam accounts on the social media platform. Twitter sued Musk afterwards.
Dorsey had been in support of the acquisition back when it was initially announced, tweeting: “Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.”
The deposition comes amid Musk’s team’s expansion of the case against Twitter. Earlier this month, a judge ruled that Musk could add to his claims based on the whistleblower disclosure by former Twitter head of secruity, Peiter Zatko.
Zatko had accused the company of major security vulnerabilities that had placed users, investors and US national security at risk.
Musk’s team publicly filed its updated counterclaims, alleging that Zatko’s disclosure and the events surrounding it “have revealed that the misrepresentations regarding mDAU [monetizable daily active users] were only one component of a broader conspiracy among Twitter executives to deceive the public, its investors, and the government about the dysfunction at the heart of the company.”
Twitter rebuttled by claiming that Zatko’s allegations painted a “false narrative” of the company and that Musk’s claims are “factually inaccurate, legally insufficient and commercially irrelevant.”
The trial is set to begin on October 17.
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