Twitter dismisses Elon Musk's bots complaints 'irrelevant sideshow'

Musk was fully aware of the bot issue when he signed the deal to buy the company, Twitter's lawyers said in a filing Monday

Twitter Inc. dismissed Elon Musk’s complaints that he doesn’t have enough information about spam and robot accounts an “irrelevant sideshow” and urged a judge to hold a trial as soon as possible over his cancellation of a $44 billion buyout of the company.
 

“The earliest possible trial date is imperative,” Twitter’s attorneys said in the nine-page filing Monday, responding to Musk’s request for a delay. “This very public dispute harms Twitter with each passing day.”

Musk, the world’s richest man, backed out of the deal to buy the platform on July 8, accusing the company of not complying with the