Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter, led by Parag Agrawal, is avoiding sharing information about the actual number of bot and spam accounts on its platform, as its leadership team sought documents from ad tech firms that worked for the micro platform. -blogging.
His legal team subpoenaed two ad tech firms — Integral Ad Science (IAS) and DoubleVerify — to provide documents or communications related to the audit of the platform’s user base, the media said.
Both ad tech firms are based in New York.
A follower of Musk tweeted: “The only relevant document I found is a blog post on the Twitter site. So basically, some companies do audits for Twitter to verify ads on the platform, but…where are they these audits? do these audits work?”
The world’s richest man responded: “These are the questions Twitter is doing everything possible to avoid answering.”
A US judge this week ordered Twitter to “collect, review and produce documents” from Kayvon Beykpour, the platform’s former general manager for consumers who was fired by the company’s CEO Parag Agrawal in May, and hand them over to that of Musk’s legal team.
Musk’s legal team has asked Judge Kathleen St.
The judge ordered Twitter to hand over the data of only Beykpour, who was a top executive at the micro-blogging platform.
The Tesla CEO has said that if Agrawal can prove the actual number of fake accounts, then the completed deal can still go ahead.
“If Twitter simply provides its method of sampling 100 accounts and how they are confirmed to be real, the deal should continue under the original terms,” Musk wrote on Twitter.
“However, if it turns out that their Securities and Exchange Commission filings are materially false, then they shouldn’t,” he added.
Amid the ongoing legal dispute, Musk has also challenged Agrawal to have a public debate on fake accounts and spam.
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