Elon Musk will push for more access to internal Twitter data at a court hearing this week after it was revealed that a former top executive has accused the company of “lying about bots” to the billionaire Tesla boss, a source close to the situation told The Post.
The in-person hearing in Musk’s ongoing legal battle to scrap his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Delaware Court of Chancery, the source said.
Musk is likely hoping that his case will be bolstered by ex-security chief Peiter Zatko, who filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission in July accusing Twitter of “Lying about Bots to Elon Musk.”
Zatko’s complaint claims that Twitter’s leadership is financially incentivized to juice user numbers instead of cracking down on bots. Musk has repeatedly accused Twitter of covering up a bot problem as part of his effort to get out of his $44 billion takeover deal.
In Zatko’s complaint, which was first reported by CNN and the Washington Post on Tuesday, the former executive claims that Twitter’s C-suite could be paid bonuses worth up to $10 million if they boosted the number of users, incentivizing them to ignore the site’s widespread issue with spam accounts.
“Twitter executives have little or no personal incentive to accurately ‘detect’ or measure the prevalence of spam bots,” read the complaint. “Senior management had no appetite to properly measure the prevalence of bot accounts … they were...
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