“That infringement threatens not just significant monetary damages, but the potential for injunctive relief that would threaten Twitter’s ongoing business as currently operated.”
This feels like an extremely important part of this story that no one is even discussing. What ended up happening here?
“Mr. Zatko alleges that:
Twitter’s platform is built in significant part on the misappropriation and infringement of third party intellectual property”
https://twitter.com/sparklingruby/status/1620625924097179649?s=20&t=8yV-HY-qn0MdTaQQOI5iTQ
Uncle Sam, of course. If the govt. supplied twitter with I.P. or other tax payer funded tech, and failed to reveal (concealed) that to Elon, then the govt. would owe him some money.
Maybe. But doubtful. Damages don’t come from the provision of said IP, but rather the use. Which was exclusively twitter’s in this circumstance. Best case scenario is some type of joint and several liability. But unless Uncle Sam consents to be sued in this circumstance you cannot sue them over it.
Yes, you make good points. However, if (assuming a lot of "if's" here) the govt. did not reveal that it was providing hardware/software/IP to twitter in order to support vital functions required for twitter to operate, then the govt. might just find itself ensnared in fraud litigation. And fraud would remove legal protections, potentially allowing Musk to go after them for damages. Maybe, based on my armchair lawyer perspective.
The worst part has to be that any funds Uncle Sam has to pay are ours. And I don’t like that I have to contribute to something I had no knowledge or control over.