His legal team can maintain that the sky is a vibrant chartreuse, but that doesn't mean it's true.

So what though?

Is Twitter going to spend the next few years litigating this just to force someone to buy the company that doesn't want to? Elon's team can drag this on and on.

What will happen to the value of Twitter's stock in the meantime? What will happen to the value of working at Twitter? It'll become a zombie company.

Yes, that's exactly what will happen. If Twitter were to say now "OK, let's forget this whole thing happened" the stock would drop massively: not only are they losing any chance at the $44B buyout, they are also admitting they (1) lied in their current contract, and (2) likely have huge bot issues that they would rather not litigate.

The only option for Twitter to continue existing is to sue Musk for the amount he promised.

What will happen to the price of the stock is that it will be inflated over the "true price" by risk adjusted premium of the buyout.

Stock price = "stock price without Elon owning it" + "Elons premium" * "likelihood of Elon losing the lawsuit and being forced to buy the company"

That likelihood should never be less than 0, so I think this legal fight would only help the twitter stock price.

I guess I am assuming that the "true price" is actually lower than what Elon offered for it.

It's worth north of $20B to Twitter shareholders and they have an (almost) rock-solid case. You can bet your ass they're going to spend the next few years to fight for it.

Sure, but that’s bullshit. Twitter carefully couched each of this sort of statement in “we might be wrong” disclaimers.

It’s not like he came up with the “they’re all bots” theory after committing.

The downvotes on this comment are the clearest evidence that people will downvote verifiable facts presented neutrally if they don’t like the facts, the people or companies involved in the fact.

The karma hit at-fates-hands takes because people are irrational is collateral damage.

Have an upvote.

The downvotes are most likely because it's a specious claim that Elon's legal team is making, not supported by fact. He waived the due diligence phase. Twitter provided his team with information. He's just trying to get out of the deal because he made an impulsive and stupid decision.

Parroting the statements of his legal team without adding the context around those statements is going to garner downvotes.

Isn't the context the link to the EDGAR documents?

Neutral TLDR summaries are viewed as a good thing on HN. Given the rest of these comments, the theme here is pure hate for the man.