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Elon Musk's legal team is demanding Twitter turn over the names of employees responsible for calculating what percentage of the social media site's users are bot and spam accounts, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The billionaire and Tesla CEO has been trying to back out of his April agreement to buy the social media company, leading Twitter to sue him last month to complete the acquisition.

Elon Musk was replying to a fan's tweet summarising the highlights of his initial $44 billion offer to buy Twitter. Musk has backed out of the deal as he believes Twitter did not reveal correct data.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the Twitter bot issue.

Not knowing or caring how machine learning works, what it can or can’t do, and where its application can be problematic could lead society to significant peril.

Twitter had called for a trial in September, but the planned date is still closer than the Musk side’s preferred date in February.

The Twitter-Musk hearing was scheduled to take place in September 2022. Musk had reportedly requested the Delaware Chancery Court to delay the proceedings till February 2023.

Kathaleen McCormick is not likely to side with the world's richest man in his Twitter battle, Columbia Law professor Eric Talley told Insider.

If Twitter's lawsuit over Elon Musk's $44 billion buyout bid ever reaches trial, the case will likely center on a ubiquitous and often unloved technology: bots.

The lawsuit alleges Musk is seeking to leave the deal because the market has turned downward.