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US Judge Orders Twitter To Hand Over Docs To Elon Musk

By  |  August 15, 2022

Twitter needs to give Elon Musk documents from a former Twitter executive who Musk said was a key figure in calculating the amount of fake accounts on the platform, according to a Monday court order.

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    Bot and spam accounts on Twitter have become a central issue in the legal fight over whether Musk, who is Tesla’s chief executive, must complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company.

    This is not the only troubling issue involving the transaction for the controversial and highly public billionaire, who has also been locked in a feud with the SEC over his tweets about Tesla since 2018. The agency already has several open probes into Musk, according to court filings

    Twitter was ordered to collect, review and produce documents from former General Manager of Consumer Product Kayvon Beykpour, according to the order from Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery.

    Read More: Twitter-Musk Trial On $44 Billion Deal Set For October

    Twitter and lawyers for Musk, the world’s richest person, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    Beykpour, who left Twitter after the social media company agreed in April to be acquired by Musk, was described in Musk’s court filings as one of the executives “most intimately involved with” determining the amount of spam accounts.

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