Elon Musk's legal team posted on Twitter under the name are requested to submit. Employees are responsible for calculating what percentage of users on social media sites are bots and spam his account, according to sources familiar with the matter .
Twitter bots and spam accounts lead to legal battle over whether Tesla's CEO Musk had to pay $44 }'s $1 billion acquisition of a social media company at the center of.
Musk said last month that Twitter was withholding information about these accounts, ending their contracts. Twitter sued Musk to complete the deal, but stated that the issue was unrelated to the agreement with Musk .
An October 17 trial is scheduled for Delaware.
In a letter sealed on Tuesday, Musk's attorneys asked the judge overseeing the case, , to share the employee's name on Twitter so that the defense team could ask questions. They asked to force them to submit, the sources said.
Bloomberg first reported Musk's attorney's request.
Musk's attorney declined to comment. rice field. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.