Twitter must hand over one bot checker's files to Musk: its ex-product head – The Irish Times

Elon Musk has been trying to back out of his April agreement to buy Twitter. Photograph: AP/PA Chris Dolmetsch, Jef Feeley and Kurt WagnerTue Aug 16 2022 – 07:47Twitter was ordered to hand over files from its former consumer product head to Elon Musk on spam and bot accounts the billionaire has cited in seeking to abandon his $44 billion (€43.2 billion) purchase of the social media company.But Twitter was spared from producing documents for most of the employees whom Mr Musk says are key witnesses on the bots issue.Mr Musk, whom Twitter sued to make him complete the deal, accused the company this month of hiding the names of workers specifically responsible for evaluating how much of the platform’s customer base is made up of spam and robot accounts. He asked the judge to force Twitter to identify them. So far Twitter has given up the names of “records custodians”, who aren’t as familiar with the data in question.On Monday, Delaware chancery court judge Kathaleen McCormick mostly denied Mr Musk’s request in a one-page ruling, ordering that Twitter needn’t “collect, review, or produce documents” from any of the other 21 additional custodians Mr Musk asked for.The exception is Kayvon…
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