Twitter asked whistleblower to destroy computer files, notebooks: Musk team
Mia Horton
Published Jan 06, 2026
San Francisco, Oct eleven (IANS) Twitter’s former head of security, whistleblower Peiter Zatko, burnt 10 notebooks and deleted a hundred laptop files at the behest of the agency’s managers, a courtroom submitting by means of Elon Musk’s prison crew has discovered.
The submitting in the Delaware Chancery Court in the US, which became unsealed on Monday, found out that Twitter requested Zatko to smash evidence before he was requested to depart the organization after he obtained extra than $7 million as a part of the agreement.
Bloomberg first pronounced this news, pronouncing the handwritten notebooks “contained notes of the whistleblower’s conferences with company counterparts at some point of his 12 months-long tenure as safety leader”.
“Twitter’s attempt to shop for Mr. Zatko’s silence failed, however Twitter performed its secondary intention of ensuring Mr. Zatko’s corroborating evidence would by no means come to light,” the Tesla CEO’s legal professionals stated inside the filing.
Twitter became yet to comment on the clean allegations by Musk’s criminal team.
Judge Kathaleen McCormick at the Delaware Chancery Court has granted a live at the Twitter-Musk trial, that is now on keep till October 28, as both the parties deliberate on a way to close the $forty four billion takeover deal.
USA Today posted my column on my proposed “First Amendment” model for Musk if he takes over Twitter. It would offer a robust protection for free speech and a relatively bright line for the company on content regulation.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 10, 2022
“If the transaction does not nearby five p.M. On October 28, the parties are told to contact me by using e mail that night to gain November 2022 trial dates,” she dominated.
The stay turned into granted over the protests of Twitter’s legal professionals.
Twitter has received a letter from Musk to move in advance with their original deal of $fifty four.20 in step with percentage (or $forty four billion).
In a new filing with the USA Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk’s legal team has additionally asked the court docket to adjourn the trial and all other lawsuits.
