Judge denies Elon Musk's request for more Twitter bot data
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Elon Musk's request for more documents and data on Twitter's internal measure of robot and spam accounts was denied by a judge. The court said the microblogging platform has already disclosed enough of the information as part of the legal fight over the now-scrapped takeover.
Delaware Chancery Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick ruled that Twitter has "done enough" in handing over documents about the so-called mDAU - a metric used to survey the number of human users. The judge also denied Musk's request Twitter officials conduct further measures on how long users stay on the platform under the terms "user-active minutes" and "stickiness", reported Bloomberg.
The billionaire had pushed a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter and later backed off blaming the company for not sharing enough data about bots. Musk and his lawyers have been repeatedly accusing Twitter of hiding crucial documents and witnesses.
Twitter sued the world's richest person for walking away from the deal and causing weeks of uncertainty. The social media giant has also accused that Musk's concerns to walk away from the deal were a pretext to get out of the deal and he has buyer's remorse.
The trial is set to take place on October 17. Chris Sontchi, a retired bankruptcy judge, will be serving as a special master to oversee discovery disputes.
