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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/25\/23322234\/twitter-v-elon-musk-discovery-mdau-bot-data<\/a>
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After a hearing on discovery requests<\/a> from lawyers representing both Elon Musk and Twitter, Judge Kathaleen McCormick gave a firm \u201cno\u201d to the Musk team\u2019s \u201cabsurdly broad\u201d request in favor of a much smaller set of information. However, Twitter must hand over some additional data relating to how it calculates the \u201cmonetizable daily active users\u201d (mDAU) statistic and its associated bot activity estimate that Musk argues is fraudulent.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s lawyers wanted \u201call of the data Twitter might possibly store for each of the approximately 200 million accounts included in its mDAU count every day for nearly three years,\u201d covering trillions of data points, McCormick wrote in her ruling<\/a>. \u201cPlaintiff [Twitter] has difficulty quantifying the burden of responding to that request because no one in their right mind has ever tried to undertake such an effort. It suffices to say, Plaintiff has demonstrated that such a request is overly burdensome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two sides are facing off as they both pursue information to support their respective arguments about whether Musk should be able to get out of his agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion before the trial is scheduled to start on October 17th<\/a>.<\/p>\n