In Twitter’s lawsuit versus Elon Musk, in which the social media website is seeking to power the billionaire to purchase the corporation, a Delaware decide has generally denied Musk’s ask for for the names and documents of 22 existing and former Twitter personnel. When Musk claims those staff are important witnesses who can testify about the company’s bot and spam users—the concern which he claims derailed his $44 billion bid to obtain the company—the decide purchased Twitter to hand around the information of just one particular individual on Musk’s record: Kayvon Beykpour, its previous head of buyer product or service.
Kathaleen McCormick, the Delaware Chancery Court docket judge overseeing the Twitter v. Musk case, explained in a ruling on Aug. 15 Twitter “is not expected to obtain, evaluation, or make documents†of any of the other 21 custodians Musk’s attorneys requested for.
Beykpour was Twitter’s head of purchaser products, the workforce dependable for growing the social media site’s user base, from 2018 to May perhaps of this year. He was unexpectedly fired by Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal, following the company’s board signed an agreement to promote itself to Musk.
Twitter sued Musk in July in an hard work to pressure him to total the proposed acquisition. In a countersuit this thirty day period, Musk accused Twitter of hiding the names of workers accountable for assessing how substantially of the platform’s users are pretend. The Tesla CEO has asserted Twitter’s bot consumer range is a great deal higher than its self-noted 5 per cent but so considerably failed to deliver evidence proving the declare.
