Musk claims that their original deal was misleading.

Since he moved to back out of their multi-billion dollar deal to acquire the social platform Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been at the center of a major lawsuit from the platform. Twitter’s lawsuit aleges that Musk is obligated to complete their deal based on the contract that was originally signed. Musk, however, is confident that he was misled about Twitter’s user metrics, which should allow him to back out of the deal with no consequence.

To drive his point home, Musk has launched a countersuit against Twitter, claiming that he was not made aware of Twitter’s current business health or the number of spam and bot accounts on the platform, which counts as a breach of the original contract.

Musk’s suit claims that Twitter’s own lawsuit is “filled with personal attacks against Musk and gaudy rhetoric more directed at a media audience than this court” and “is nothing more than an attempt to distract from these misrepresentations.”

“That has been Twitter’s strategy all along: to distract from and obfuscate the truth about its disclosures — first from its investors and then from the Musk Parties when they began to discern the truth,” the case adds.

In response to Musk’s countersuit, Twitter filed a court reply stating that it was nothing but “an effort to escape a merger agreement that Musk no longer found attractive once the stock market — and along with it, his massive personal wealth — declined in value.”

“The counterclaims are a made-for-litigation tale that is contradicted by the evidence and common sense,” Twitter added.

Musk and Twitter’s cases are set to be heard in October.