McCormick granted a request from Twitter to obtain company phone records for texts sent by both Musk and Jared Birchall, the man who runs Musk’s family office.
She also denied a request from Musk’s legal team to delay the trial but allowed it to add allegations from Peiter Zatko to its case. Zatko, Twitter’s former head of cybersecurity, filed an explosive whistleblower complaint alleging, among other claims, that Twitter lied to Musk about the number of bots on its platform.
