Twitter Ordered to Provide Subset of Elon Musk’s ‘Absurdly Broad’ Request for Data

A Delaware judge called Elon Musk’s request for years of data about Twitter Inc.’s TWTR 0.64%▲ spam and fake accounts “absurdly broad” but ordered the social-media company to provide a subset of the information in the continuing legal battle over the billionaire’s soured $44 billion takeover.

Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick said in a decision Thursday that the request by Mr. Musk’s legal team to compel the company to produce “trillions upon trillions of data points” for more than 200 million users was overly burdensome and “no one in their right mind has ever tried to undertake such an effort.”