Elon Musk will face Twitter in a trial starting Oct. 17 over the Tesla CEO's terminated $44 billion takeover of the social media platform. Lawyers for both Twitter and Musk agreed to a five-day trial in Delaware's Court of Chancery, where Twitter filed a lawsuit against Musk earlier this month after he informed the company that he was backing out of his very public acquisition of the company. According to NBC News, Musk's lawyers previously sought a Feb. 2023 start date so that Musk's team could thoroughly investigate his claims regarding the number of fake and spam accounts on Twitter; Twitter's "false and misleading representations" about the fake accounts are cited as the reason Musk terminated the merger agreement. However, Twitter's lawyers pushed for a sooner trial, with the Delaware Court of Chancery judge electing to begin proceedings in roughly three months' time.