The judge in charge of the trial that will face Elon Musk Already Twitter next October, Kathleen McCormick, has described the tycoon’s data request to the social network, necessary to prepare the case, as “absurdly broad”; so it has been mostly rejected.
“My overall impression is that Plaintiff (Twitter) has agreed to submit a large amount of information to Defendants (Elon Musk), and that the information Plaintiff has agreed to submit is broad enough to satisfy most of Plaintiff’s obligations.” McCormick stated in his ruling.
The businessman’s representatives requested access to “all the data that Twitter could possibly store for each of the approximately 200 million accounts included in its count of monetizable daily active users every day for almost three years.” The judge has remarked that “nobody in their right mind has ever requested such an effort.”
However, the social network will need to share more information from the accounts it reviewed to determine the amount of spam and fake accounts within them; Precisely, the excuse that Musk used a little over a month ago to share his intention to withdraw from the purchase agreement, closed at the end of April for more than 44,000 million dollars.
Specifically, Twitter claims that the prevalence of fake accounts and spam bots does not reach 5% within the platform, something that Elon Musk doubts. Just like the former head of security for the social network Peiter Zatko, who has filed a lawsuit against the ‘app’ with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in which he accuses the tool of lying to investors and institutions about their security.
In order for Musk to verify the numbers of the ‘app’, the judge requires Twitter to present 9,000 accounts reviewed in relation to its audit of the fourth quarter of 2021 regarding the number of spam bots, as well as sufficient documents to show how they were selected. those accounts for review. He must share this information in the next two weeks.