Court Asks Twitter To Provide Elon Musk's Former Executive's Documents

A court order issued on Monday requires Twitter Inc. to provide Elon Musk with documents from a former Twitter executive who Musk claimed was crucial in determining how many bogus accounts were present on the network. In the court battle over whether Musk, the Chief Executive Officer (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. Musk is the richest man in the world, and neither Twitter nor his attorneys responded to calls for comment almost away. 

Beykpour was one of the executives "most intimately involved with" determining the number of spam accounts, according to Musk's court documents. Beykpour left Twitter after the social media business agreed in April to be acquired by Musk. An inquiry for comment made via LinkedIn was not immediately answered by Beykpour. 

Musk requested access to 21 additional individuals who had access to pertinent material, 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 pleading 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 business claims he broke his promise to buy it, and it wants McCormick to order him to close the sale at $54.20 per share.