Musk wins one, loses 21 others as judge denies access to many Twitter records
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington, DC.
The judge overseeing the Twitter/Elon Musk case is giving Musk access to evidence from one former Twitter executive but rejected his request for documents from 21 other potential witnesses. As previously reported, Musk was seeking evidence from employees responsible for calculating spam-account estimates and reportedly claimed Twitter was hiding key witnesses.
In response, Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick ruled yesterday that Twitter "is required to collect, review, and produce documents from Kayvon Beykpour," the recently fired head of Twitter's consumer product group. But Twitter "is not required to collect, review, or produce documents from any other of the defendants' proposed 22 additional custodians. The plaintiff need only collect, review, and produce documents from the 41 custodians to which plaintiff has agreed to date and Mr. Beykpour."
Musk's request was part of his effort to disprove Twitter's estimate that fewer than 5 percent of its monetizable daily active users (mDAU) are spam or fake.