Ex-Twitter Execs Fight Back Against Musk's Spam Bot Claims

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and ex-CFO Ned Segal are pushing back hard in court. The duo took the stand in a shareholder trial to dispute Elon Musk's central claim — that they deliberately misled him about the percentage of spam accounts on the platform.

Musk has long argued that Twitter's leadership lied about the platform's bot problem, a narrative he leaned on heavily during his rocky acquisition saga. Now a jury gets to decide who's telling the truth.

The trial puts two of Twitter's former top brass directly against the man who eventually bought and gutted the company. Agrawal and Segal are fighting Musk's version of events head-on, rejecting the idea that they misrepresented the platform's user makeup.

The outcome could have real consequences for how acquisition disputes play out in tech.