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    Twitter takes Elon Musk to court, accusing him of bad faith and hypocrisy

    The social media company is asking a Delaware court to force the world's richest man to follow through on his agreement to buy it for $44 billion.
    by Shannon Bond Jul 12, 2022 3 minutes
    Twitter's lawsuit sets the social media company and the world's richest man up for a lengthy, expensive and high-stakes battle.
    Updated July 12, 2022 at 6:48 PM ET

    Twitter has sued Elon Musk to compel him to buy the social media company for $44 billion – a deal the world's richest person said last week he was calling off.

    The lawsuit, filed in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Tuesday, accuses Musk of hypocrisy and bad faith in breaching his contract with Twitter.

    It claims that Musk used pretexts, including a question about how many fake and spam accounts are on

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