A court order issued on Monday requires Twitter Inc. to provide Elon Musk with documents from a former Twitter executive who Musk said was key in figuring out how many fake accounts were present on the network.
In the court battle over whether Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc., must complete his $44 billion takeover of the social media business, bot and spam accounts on Twitter have emerged as a key problem.
Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery ordered Twitter to gather, examine, and submit records from former General Manager of Consumer Products Kayvon Beykpour.
Twitter and lawyers for Musk, the world’s richest person, did not immediately respond to requests for comment, Reuters reported.
Beykpour was one of the executives “most intimately involved with” determining the number of spam accounts, according to Musk’s court filings. Beykpour left Twitter after the social media company agreed in April to be acquired by Musk.
Beykpour did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent through LinkedIn.
Musk requested access to 21 additional individuals who had access to pertinent information, but McCormick stated in her decision on Monday that she was rejecting this request.
Last week, Musk’s legal team sent a letter to McCormick asking with her to order Twitter to provide the names of its employees so that they might be questioned.
Twitter has refuted Musk’s allegations that it misrepresented the number of actual active users on its site when he made them earlier this month. The company alleges he broke his promise to buy it, and it wants McCormick to order him to close the sale at $54.20 per share.
On Monday, Twitter’s stock increased 0.5% to settle at $44.50 per share.
(With Inputs from Reuters)
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