Twitter will have to provide the data of the false accounts of the platform to Elon Musk, according to the most recent decision of Kathaleen McCormick, the judge who is dealing with the lawsuit that opposes the richest man in the world on the social network.
The Delaware court judge ruled that the social network you have to give data to Elon Musk on how it calculates the number of “bots” and fake accounts present on the platform. In July, when he retracted his intention to buy Twitter, the social network for which he wanted to pay $44 billion, Musk explained that the company was not providing all the data necessary for the transaction, including data from fake accounts. .
Despite granting Musk’s request, the judge denied the request. “absolutely extended” from Musk’s lawyers, who asked for information about the entire platform of Twitter users. Therefore, Twitter will have to provide Musk’s defense with a sample of 9,000 accounts; It will be from this sample that the total number of fake and spam accounts will be estimated.
According to Reuters, Twitter claimed that such data did not exist and would take a long time to collect. The judge did not accept this justification and gave the company two weeks to provide this information to Elon Musk.
Alex Spiro, Elon Musk’s lawyer, shared with Reuters that “he is excited to be able to analyze the data that Twitter has been hiding for several months.” As for Twitter, there was no public reaction.
The trial pitting Twitter against Elon Musk is scheduled for October 17. The social network wants Musk to keep his word and complete the purchase of the social network for the agreed price of $54.2 per share, for a total of $44 billion.
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Source: Observadora
