Court orders Twitter to provide Musk with additional data related to spam and bot accounts

Delaware Chancery Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick signed an order Thursday ordering Twitter to provide Elon Musk with additional data related to spam and bot accounts, Bitcoin.com reported. . Defendants' document request will require plaintiffs to provide trillions of data points, reflecting all the data Twitter may store each day for each of the roughly 200 million accounts it includes in its daily active user (mDAU) count. The judge said the plaintiff was asked to provide part of the defendant's request, 9,000 accounts related to the plaintiff's fourth quarter 2021 audit, which is expected to be completed within two weeks, and must produce sufficient documentation to demonstrate how the 9,000 accounts were selected for review. Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an investigation into Twitter's method of identifying spam accounts, according to a new regulatory filing published Wednesday.