San Francisco, Aug 26 : A US judge has rejected Elon Musk’s ridiculous request to require Twitter to release all of the data from around 200 million user accounts over the last three years.Judge Kathaleen McCormick said no to Musk’s legal team’s “absurdly broad” request, stating that Twitter must turn over the 9,000 accounts that it reviewed to conduct its own audit in the fourth quarter of 2021, as reported by The Verge.
“Plaintiff (Twitter) is having difficulty quantifying the weight of responding to the request, as nobody in their conscious mind has ever attempted to tackle such a task.It’s enough to say, Plaintiff has proved that the request is too burdensome.” the judge said late Thursday.
Twitter will now have to provide “a small amount of additional set of information from its review database” according to the judge.
Additionally, the judge granted Twitter’s request to access documents from Musk’s team, similar to the analysis of data Musk did prior to when he announced his decision to cancel the deal for $44 billion.
Musk and Twitter will engage in a courtroom fight starting October 17 to last for five consecutive days.
Musk’s team also submitted an order for evidence from the former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
In the meantime, Twitter’s former chief of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko has claimed that the platform run by Parag Agrawal has lied about the number of bots that use its platform .It also misled federal regulators regarding security of users, leading to an uproar.
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