Engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and investor Elon Musk. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 16A court in the United States partially granted the secret petition of the American entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk, who asked to transfer information from 22 more Twitter employees about the operation of the platform, and ordered the company to provide Musk with data held by the former manager of one of the company's divisions, Business Insider news portal writes with reference to sources. According to the publication, Musk's corresponding petition was secretly filed last week. On Monday, Judge Kathleen McCormick partially granted him, ordering Twitter to release data held by former consumer market chief Kavon Bakpour. Now Twitter must «collect, study and provide documents» of Bakpur. At the same time, the prosecution wanted to receive information not only from Beikpur, but also from a number of middle managers and less senior employees of the company.Elon Musk sold almost $7 billion worth of Tesla shares As Business Insider notes, Bakepur most likely had access to information and documents related to data on the analysis of bot activity on the social network. In addition, the news portal writes that Musk's lawyers filed another new a motion to compel Twitter to provide additional documents on statistics on platform users and on data collection and processing methods. Keivon Bakpour joined Twitter in 2018, when Jack Dorsey was still its head. In May of this year, Bakpour left the company, but, as he noted on his Twitter page, this was not his decision. In April, Musk wanted to acquire Twitter and offered $ 44 billion for it, but then demanded to check the company's data that fake accounts used, among other things, to send spam, does not exceed 5%. Musk later notified the company that he was refusing to buy the social network, explaining that he was exercising his right to terminate the agreement. According to Musk, the social network underestimated the number of false and spam accounts, and also did not provide the necessary information. At the end of July, Twitter announced that the shareholders of the social network at an extraordinary meeting on September 13 would vote on the sale of Musk in accordance with the agreement reached in April. American Twitter Inc. was founded in 2006. The main product of the company is a social network for exchanging short messages. Headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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