Elon Musk says Whistleblower proves rampant Twitter bots are on the site

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“None of these boogeymen concerns are real,” he added, arguing that buyers of hospitals are still entitled to business data despite privacy concerns.  

On Thursday, Judge McCormick ruled that some of the Musk team’s requests were “absurdly broad.” 

But Twitter will be required to turn over data from 9,000 accounts. This is the 2021 data used to audit active users. And estimate how many Twitter bots and spam accounts are on site.

Twitter claims that the data is no longer in existence. And also say it would be difficult to reconstruct it. The court gave Twitter two weeks to produce the disputed data.

The trial is scheduled to start on October 17th.

In the meantime, Twitter shares dropped over 7% on Tuesday following the public release of Zatko’s report. And after the Delaware hearing, the stock posted a slight improvement of 2.3% closing at $40.79.