- A whistleblower said he destroyed notebooks and computer files at Twitter's request, per a court filing.
- Elon Musk requested sanctions against Twitter on October 3, alleging it destroyed evidence.
- The filing was made public on Monday, but filed the day before Musk made a U-turn on the purchase.
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Elon Musk accused Twitter of ordering whistleblower Peiter Zatko to destroy evidence, according to a court filing that was made public on Monday.
The court letter was initially filed on October 3 — the day before Musk said he would purchase Twitter at its original price after months of trying to back out of the $44 billion acquisition. The letter asks the Delaware judge overseeing the lawsuit between the billionaire and social media company to sanction Twitter over the accusations it forced Zatko to destroy evidence of its alleged malpractice.
The filing said that Twitter's former security chief, Zatko, testified he burned 10 handwritten notebooks and deleted 100 computer files after the company instructed him to "destroy all documents in his possession containing Twitter information." Musk's legal team argued that the...
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