Report comes as Musk accuses Twitter of 'resisting and thwarting' his right to information about fake accounts
About one and a half months since Twitter announced it’s selling the company to Elon Musk for $44 billion, a new report has claimed that the business mogul’s Tesla monitored employees in a Facebook group and more broadly on social media.
The electric vehicle company was paying a consultancy, MWW PR, to do the monitoring in 2017 and 2018, at a time when workers sought to form a union at the Tesla factory in Fremont, CA, reported CNBC.
MWW PR watched discussions alleging unfair labor practices at the Musk-owned company and about a sexual harassment lawsuit, according to the report, citing documents of the consultancy’s work.
Tesla paid MWW PR to specifically “monitor a Tesla employee Facebook group, monitor Facebook more broadly for commentary on organizing efforts, and to conduct research specifically on organizers, going on to develop labor communication plans, media lists, and pitches based on their reconnaissance,” reported CNBC.
The CNBC report comes after Musk accused Twitter of “resisting and thwarting” his right to information about fake accounts on the platform. This, Musk said in a letter to the company, is a “clear material breach” of the terms of their merger agreement.
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