“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
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.