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Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, has been following the whole Twitter lawsuit agains Elon Musk saga — and trying to quantify the likelihood of each of the many outcomes of the lawsuit.

“I’m a little bit unclear on why people are so excited about it,” a behavioral scientist told Grid.

The whistleblower, Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, alleges a laundry list of failures by Twitter to secure data, maintain user privacy and prevent bots on the platform in a complaint to federal regulators.

The results raise questions about Twitter’s verification process, and of course, who is given additional cachet when it comes to health messages reaching a wider audience on social media.

When Truth Social debuted over this past Presidents Day weekend, the app revealed itself to be what most experts saw as a shiny, glitchy Twitter knockoff.