# It's not every day that

By [LehtonenLillian](https://paragraph.com/@philand) · 2022-07-15

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It's not every day that a major corporate lawsuit features a poop emoji, but then again it's not every day that one of the world's most influential social media platforms sues the world's richest man to make him buy it.

Twitter on Tuesday [filed a lengthy and colorful lawsuit](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/tech/twitter-elon-musk-acquisition-lawsuit/index.html) against Elon Musk that aims to force the Tesla CEO to follow through with his [$44 billion deal](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/tech/elon-musk-twitter-sale-agreement/index.html) to buy the social media company after he moved last week to [terminate](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/tech/elon-musk-twitter-deal-exit/index.html) the acquisition.

Musk, who [initially framed](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/tech/musk-twitter-offer-explanation/index.html) his desire to take over Twitter in grandiose terms as "important to the future of civilization," has attributed his [change of heart](https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/tech/twitter-elon-musk-timeline/index.html) to concerns about the number of bots and spam accounts on the platform. He accused Twitter of violating the deal (a binding agreement he signed without negotiating in a bot-related data provision) by not handing over [information he says he needs](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/tech/elon-musk-twitter-bots/index.html) to evaluate the scale of the issue.

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*Originally published on [LehtonenLillian](https://paragraph.com/@philand/it-s-not-every-day-that)*
