At a hearing seeking more data on bots from Twitter, Elon Musk's lawyers cite whistleblower Peiter Zatko's claims; Twitter says spam counts are merely estimates
One of TWTR's main arguments against Musk right now is that Musk's team is asking for private user data to assess bots. Phone #'s and geolocation. Twitter says doing so is largely illegal and also why would the give data to someone who openly says he wants to start a competitor.
As predicted, our scoop on Twitter security whistleblower Mudge's allegations is already impacting the Musk-Twitter trial. From today's hearing (in real-time): https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
In our Twitter Space just now, Twitter whistleblower's lawyer John Tye (@wbaidlaw) tells us definitively that Mudge has *not* been in contact with Musk and there was no coordination between the two. This contradicts what one source had told us.
It is possible to believe both that Elon Musk's case against Twitter is mostly bullshit, and also believe that Twitter is an extraordinarily badly run and dysfunctional company.