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Time will tell. Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Kintania with John Fort and Julia Borsston. Dear Debosa has the morning off. A few moments ago, a hearing kicks off between Twitter and Elon Musk over the timeline of that trial. And Julia, that's where we're

going to begin this morning. Twitter and Elon Musk lawyers are right now facing off in virtual court

for the very first time as the two sides make their arguments about how soon the case should take

place before this is all happening before the chief Judge of the Delaware Chancery Court.

Now, Twitter is asking for a four-day proceeding in September, arguing that shareholders in its business have been left in limbo.

But Musk says he needs until February to investigate spam and fake accounts, saying trial prep will, quote, be extremely fact and expert intensive,

requiring substantial time for discovery.

Twitter shooting back to that in a filing late yesterday, writing, quote, the earliest possible

trial date is imperative, saying the very public dispute harms Twitter with each passing day

Musk is in breach.

The chancellor who is hearing this McCormick could announce her ruling as soon as today.

And the October 24th deadline for completing the deal, that will likely factor into her decision.

So, John, I guess the question here is, what can we read into the outcome of today's hearing for perhaps insight into what what we could expect

for the trial itself?

Well, it's a lot, right, Julia?

I mean, we were talking about this a little earlier today.

Elon Musk's entire argument here seems to hinge on this idea that he stumbled across a massive

fraud and how Twitter calculates spam accounts and he needs time to do due diligence

even though he waived the right to do due diligence so he's trying to like get in a time machine

and redo this have the court redo this deal and make it about spam accounts even though his entire

argument for buying Twitter was that only as a private company,

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