{"id":1635269,"date":"2022-09-07T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635269"},"modified":"2022-09-07T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:49:04","slug":"judge-rules-elon-musk-can-use-twitter-whistleblower-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-elon-musk-can-use-twitter-whistleblower-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Elon Musk Can Use Twitter Whistleblower Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-rules-elon-musk-can-use-twitter-whistleblower-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>A court filing released on Wednesday has revealed that a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-delaware-judge-allows-twitter-to-fast-track-suit-against-elon-musk\/\">Delaware court<\/a> has denied SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s request to delay the trial that to his attempt to pull out of his Twitter buyout deal.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/09\/07\/delaware-court-denies-musk-request-to-delay-twitter-trial-but-approves-request-to-add-whistleblower-claims.html\">CNBC<\/a>, who viewed the documents, the court also ruled that Musk will be able to add in claims from a Twitter whistleblower to his countersuit against the popular social media platform.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The trial is set to begin on October 17. Musk\u2019s team had requested a mid-November start date.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I previously rejected Defendants\u2019 arguments in response to Twitter\u2019s motion to expedite, making clear that the longer the delay until trial, the greater the risk of irreparable harm to Twitter,&#8221; Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick wrote. &#8220;I am convinced that even four weeks\u2019 delay would risk further harm to Twitter too great to justify.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Musk\u2019s lawyers had requested to add in claims related to a complaint recently made public from a whistleblower, Twitter\u2019s former head of security, Peiter &#8220;Mudge&#8221; Zatko.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The billionaire\u2019s legal team argued that the claims, which according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/23\/twitter-whistleblower-alleges-execs-misled-board-and-public-on-spam-security.html\">CNBC<\/a> allege &#8220;extreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter&#8221; related to privacy, security and content moderation on the social media platform, would show how Twitter breached it merger agreement terms if proven true.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>After Zatko\u2019s claims were made public, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal sent a memo to employees that stated that they were still reviewing the complaint, but added that is a false narrative that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and presented without important context.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/09\/07\/delaware-court-denies-musk-request-to-delay-twitter-trial-but-approves-request-to-add-whistleblower-claims.html\">CNBC<\/a>, McCormick said Musk\u2019s legal team would be allowed to only &#8220;incremental discovery&#8221; based on the new allegations, including &#8220;targeted document discovery and minimal additional experts and fact witnesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;We are hopeful that winning the motion to amend takes us one step closer to the truth coming out in that courtroom,&#8221; said Musk lawyer Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In July, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-elon-musk-terminates-twitter-deal\">terminated<\/a> his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, which had been in motion since the spring.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The deal had been placed on <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/musks-twitter-deal-on-hold-until-ceo-proves-bot-accounts-are-less-than-5-percent-of-users\">hold<\/a> since May after Musk demanded that the social media platform prove that less than five percent of users are bot accounts.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court filing released on Wednesday has revealed that a Delaware court has denied SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s request to delay the trial that to his attempt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1635271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1635271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}