• Delaware Court ordered Twitter to collect documents from former an executive and produce them to Musk
Inc (NYSE:
TWTR) will have to provide Elon Musk with documents from a
former Twitter executive whom Musk said was a crucial figure in
calculating the number of fake accounts on the platform,
Reuters reported, citing a court order.Bot
and spam accounts on the social media platform have become the central
issue in the legal fight over whether Tesla Inc’s (NASDAQ:
TSLA) chief
executive Elon Musk must complete his $44 billion acquisition.
The
report said Delaware Court of Chancery’s Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick
ordered Twitter to collect, review and produce documents from former
General Manager of Consumer Product Kayvon Beykpour.
In
“most intimately involved with” determining the amount of spam accounts.
Beykpour left Twitter after the social media company agreed in April to be acquired by the billionaire.
McCormick
said in her order on Monday that she denied Musk’s request for access
to 21 other people with control over relevant information.
Earlier
this month, Musk accused Twitter of fraud for misrepresenting the
number of active users on its platform, which the microblogging platform
has accused him of breaching his agreement to acquire the company and
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