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Elon Musk, in the midst of a legal standoff against Twitter, has demanded that the former head of security of the social network, whistleblower Peiter Zatko, provide him with documents and testify about the lies that the latter denounced last month to US regulators. Peiter Zatko's lawyers have indicated that their client will respond to this request.
Elon Musk has formally asked the former head of Twitter security, Peiter Zatko, who recently accused the platform of lies, to provide documents and testify as part of the legal proceedings, which opposes him to the social network, it was learned on Monday, August 29.
In a document sent last month to two American regulators as well as to the Ministry of Justice, the one who presented himself as a whistleblower, questioned Twitter for its failing cybersecurity. He also accused the San Francisco company's executives of deliberately publicly overestimating the extent of their fight against fake accounts and spam.
Elon Musk Twitter lawsuit whistleblowers
This last assertion is likely to strengthen the line of defense of Elon Musk, who claims to have given up on acquiring Twitter because the company lied to him about the proportion of these fake accounts and spam on the social network.
The entrepreneur and his lawyers handed over, on Saturday, to Peiter Zatko a subpoena demanding all the documents and communications in his possession relating "to the impact and effects of fake accounts and spam on Twitter activity," according to the document in the file that AFP was able to consult. The period under consideration is from January 1, 2019 to the date of receipt of the summons.
The Tesla boss is also soliciting the testimony of Peiter Zatko, whom he is summoning for a deposition on September 9 at premises near his home in New Jersey.
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The whistleblower's lawyers indicated that he would comply with this request, while specifying that his participation would be "involuntary". Peiter Zatko "did not alert the competent authorities to favor Musk or weaken Twitter", the councils assured, "but to protect the American public and Twitter shareholders".
Elon Musk also asks the former head of security to produce any document related to the measurement of the number of monetizable daily active users (mDAU), a key indicator of the group's performance. In addition, the billionaire wants to obtain written traces of presentations that Peiter Zatko allegedly made to management regarding the risks of cyberattacks and flaws in Twitter's computer system.
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He also says he is interested in all documents and communications "relating to Twitter's attempts to hide its security flaws from investors, regulators and the public", as well as any traces of "illegal activity" within the company.
The dispute between Twitter and Elon Musk is to be examined during a trial that will begin on October 17 in a specialized court in Delaware and which is scheduled to last five days.
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