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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/16\/23309024\/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-bot-spam-kayvon-beykpour<\/a>
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Elon Musk\u2019s lawyers notched a partial win this week in their Delaware Court of Chancery standoff against Twitter with a motion requesting information from 22 Twitter employees, or \u201ccustodians,\u201d in addition to 41 others that both sides already agreed on for sharing data. Judge Kathaleen McCormick ruled on the issue<\/a> Monday afternoon, deciding Twitter has to \u201ccollect, review, and produce documents\u201d from just one of the people listed: Kayvon Beykpour, the former head of consumer product at Twitter.<\/p>\n

With the October 17th<\/a> trial date for Twitter\u2019s lawsuit against Musk for trying to break up their $44 billion deal drawing closer \u2014 and Musk selling billions of dollars worth of his stock in Tesla<\/a> \u2014 his lawyers are trying to find something to shore up their arguments that Twitter committed fraud, while Twitter\u2019s legal team issues subpoenas to help out the case on their side. Insider<\/em><\/a> reports, based on anonymous sourcing, that Musk\u2019s lawyers were pursuing information from Twitter employees who ranged from mid-level execs to lower-level employees, and noted that his legal team filed another motion to compel pursuing info on Twitter\u2019s user data, as well as the methods used to collect and analyze it.<\/p>\n

As described in a lengthy countersuit<\/a> (that Twitter already responded to<\/a>), they argue the company put walls in the way of Musk\u2019s attempts to verify data about how many daily active users are actually bots, as Musk disputes the company\u2019s claim that spam bots account for fewer than 5 percent of the accounts it measures.<\/p>\n