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Twitter ripped into Elon Musk in the new lawsuit it just filed. Here are the 6 best lines from the complaint.

Samantha DelouyaJul 13, 2022, 06:25 IST

Elon Musk at the 2022 Met Gala.Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Twitter filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk for trying to back out of his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
Musk said he wanted to terminate the deal because of issues around Twitter's disclosure of the number of spam accounts on its site.

Twitter isn't letting Elon Musk back away from his initial promise to buy the social media site that easily.

On Tuesday, Twitter filed a lawsuit against Musk, accusing him of "refusing to honor his obligations."

The suit comes after Musk announced last week that he wanted to terminate the agreement he signed in April to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Musk claimed he wanted to end the deal because Twitter did not hand over enough data for his team to verify the number of bots and spam accounts on the site.

In response to the lawsuit late Tuesday from Twitter, Musk tweeted: "Oh the irony lol."

Twitter's lawsuit is full of fiery accusations against Musk. Here are some of the best lines:

Twitter called Musk's exit strategy from his agreement to buy Twitter "a model of hypocrisy."

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Twitter accused Musk of conjuring up fake reasons for trying to exit the deal.

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Twitter called Musk's requests for data on spam and bot users "increasingly invasive and unreasonable."

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The lawsuit accuses Musk of potentially trying to build a competitor to Twitter.

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Twitter accuses Musk of seeking to do "irreparable damage" to the company.

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Twitter says Musk is treating the merger process as "an elaborate joke."

Court documents show that Elon Musk and a 36-year-old Neuralink executive are the parents of 8-month-old twins.Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

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