Twitter has to give Elon Musk only ex-product head's data on bots: Court

Twitter needn't "collect, review, or produce documents" from any of the other 21 additional custodians Elon Musk asked for: Court

Twitter Inc. was ordered to hand over files from its former consumer product head to Elon Musk on spam and bot accounts the billionaire has cited in seeking to abandon his $44 billion purchase of the social media company.

But Twitter was spared from producing documents for most of the employees Musk says are key witnesses on the bots issue.

Musk, whom Twitter sued to make him complete the deal, accused the company this month of hiding the names of workers specifically responsible for evaluating how much of the platform’s customer base is made up of spam and