• Twitter hired a law firm that CEO Elon Musk publicly criticized last month and said "thrives on corruption."
• Musk told Reuters on Friday that hiring law firm Perkins Coie was "an error on the part of a member of the Twitter team."
• He added that the firm "will not be representing Twitter on future cases."

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Twitter recently hired a law firm Elon Musk dislikes to represent the company in a lawsuit, and Musk has since offered an explanation for the confusing situation.

Musk told Reuters on Friday that Twitter's hiring of Seattle-based law firm Perkins Coie was "an error on the part of a member of the Twitter team."

"Perkins will not be representing Twitter on future cases," he said in an email to the news outlet.

The lawsuit at hand was brought by far-right activist Laura Loomer against Twitter and co-founder Jack Dorsey. A self-described "proud Islamophobe," Loomer was booted from the platform in 2018 over "hateful" content after she called Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar "anti Jewish" and said Omar's Muslim faith supported homophobia and the abuse of women.

Musk has publicly denounced Perkins...

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