Elon Musk has alleged that Twitter officials ordered a whistleblower to destroy evidence of their missteps as part of a $7.8-million severance package at issue in a legal fight over the billionaire’s attempt to cancel a buyout of the social media platform.
Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s ex-head of security, said he burned 10 handwritten notebooks and deleted 100 computer files at the behest of company managers as part of severance agreement, according to unsealed court filings. The books contained notes of the whistleblower’s meetings with company counterparts during his yearlong tenure as security chief, the filings show.
Zatko has been at the center of Musk’s arguments that Twitter misled him about a raft of operational problems at the social media platform — which justified walking away from the $44-billion buyout. The billionaire reversed course last week and agreed to buy the company for the original price of $54.20 a share.
“Twitter’s attempt to buy Mr. Zatko’s silence failed, but Twitter achieved its secondary aim of ensuring Mr. Zatko’s corroborating evidence would never come to light,” Musk’s lawyers said Monday in an unsealed filing in Twitter’s Delaware suit aimed at forcing the billionaire to consummate the deal.
Twitter didn’t immediately respond to Musk’s allegations in the filing.
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