Whistleblower

Musk has been locked in a bitter legal battle with Twitter since announcing in July that he was pulling the plug on his $44 billion purchase of the company. Twitter attorneys have accused Musk of using delay tactic designed to derail the takeover. (Reuters)…

Elon Musk whistleblower claims from Twitter’s former head of security, Pieter Zatko, as he attempts to get out of the $44 billion acquisition, a judge has ruled. The ruling comes one day after lawyers for Musk and twitter in Delaware’s Court of Chancery over Zatko’s allegations. Twitter had argued that Zatko was a disgruntled employee, and that Musk was looking for reasons to get out of the deal long before he learned about the whistleblower complaint. The decision could complicate Twitter’s ongoing legal battle. The…

Meta has made some changes in the year since tech whistleblower Frances Haugen’s revelations, but Haugen doesn’t think it has done enough. “They haven’t really learned the right lesson,” Haugen said at Vox Media’s Code Conference on Tuesday. Haugen, a former product manager at Meta (formerly known as Facebook), made waves last fall when she leaked an extensive trove of internal documents suggesting that the company knew more than it let on about the harms its products can cause to society. One of the most…

In this illustration, Elon Musk's Twitter account is displayed on the screen of a mobile phone with the Twitter logo in the background. A whistleblower's complaint that Twitter misled federal regulators about the company's security risks could provide Elon Musk with fresh ammunition in his bid to get out of buying the company for $44 billion.Sheldon Cooper | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesElon Musk's legal team filed another notice on Tuesday to terminate his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, citing additional reasons.Twitter…

Twitter now has a whistleblower problem of its own. Last week, the company’s former head of security, Pieter “Mudge” Zatko, went public with an extensive whistleblower complaint detailing numerous security lapses and other issues he experienced during his tenure. Much of the complaint details specific security problems he encountered. It also repeatedly blasts Twitter’s executives for putting user and revenue growth ahead of platform safety, and claims that in some cases executives lied to both twitter’s board and the…

Elon Musk sought to delay the Twitter Inc trial to November, according to a court filing, as a whistleblower provided him with fresh ammunition to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company. Billionaire Musk has spent months alleging that the company he agreed to acquire undercounted its fake…

Elon Musk has sent an additional letter of deal termination to Twitter Inc after the world's richest person…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Twitter lobbed more accusations at each other Tuesday in the latest round of legal filings over Musk’s efforts to rescind his offer to buy the social media platform. Musk filed more paperwork in his bid to terminate the deal, this time based on information in a whistleblower complaint filed by Twitter’s former head of security. Twitter fired back by saying Musk’s attempt to back out is “invalid and wrongful.” In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk said his legal team notified…

Elon Musk has sent an additional letter of deal termination to Twitter Inc. to include a recent whistleblower complaint from a former security head of the social media firm as another reason to scrap the $44 billion deal. Last week, Peiter Zatko, a famed hacker known as "Mudge", said in his complaint that Twitter prioritised user growth over reducing spam and falsely claimed it had a solid security plan. If the allegations are true, then Twitter has breached some of the provisions of the merger agreement, Musk and his…

It’s unclear whether Peiter Zatko’s information about bots on Twitter will help Musk get out of the deal.Photo: Chris Delmas / AFP (Getty Images)Tesla CEO and remorseful Twitter buyer Elon Musk is seizing on the explosive whistleblower complaint lodged against Twitter by its former head of security in an attempt to strengthen the case he’s making to walk away from his $44 billion deal to purchase the social media network. Lawyers for Peter Zatko stated late Monday that the former employee had received a subpoena from…