Twitter declined to comment. The five-day trial is scheduled for October 17
Elon Musk can access Twitter data used in a 2021 audit of active users, but other information the billionaire is seeking has been rejected as “absurd”, a judge said on Thursday (August 25).
Twitter must hand over data from 9,000 accounts, as the “Guardian” newspaper writes, that were checked, as part of the process of estimating the number of spam accounts.
Twitter had said that such data did not exist and that it would be a “mistake” to collect it. The chancellor Kathleen McCormickchief judge of the Delaware Court of Chancery, gave the company two weeks to produce the data.
Musk claimed the company misled him by misrepresenting the number of actual users in its financial disclosures, which he relied on to make his takeover offer, and wanted the data to confirm Twitter’s estimates of spam.
“We look forward to reviewing the data, which Twitter has withheld for many months,” Alex Spiro, Musk’s lawyer, said in an emailed statement.
Twitter declined to comment. The five-day trial is scheduled for October 17.
McCormick also rejected several of Musk’s other requests for data.
Musk, the world’s richest man, has said he wants to test the accuracy of the audit because he believes the company fraudulently misrepresented that only 5% of its accounts were spam.
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