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Shareholders of Twitter voted Tuesday to approve the company’s sale to Elon Musk, a key administrative step that’s also a bit surreal as the billionaire Tesla founder is fighting in court to extricate himself from the deal. The vote was scheduled months ago. It falls the same day a Twitter whistleblower is sounding off…

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko described the company as a Wild West of unsecured data whose management consistently chose revenue and subscriber growth over security and privacy. "Thousands of Twitter employees can access user data they don't need access to to do their jobs. And if foreign assets work for Twitter…

A Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled that Elon Musk may amend a countersuit vs Twitter to include a whistleblower complaint, but denied his request for a trial extension, keeping an Oct. 17 start date. Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick made the decision following a long hearing yesterday where the two sides argued their…

Lawyers for Elon Musk dialed upped the drama in Delaware Chancery Court today, insisting nothing less than "justice and truth" requires a three-week extension to the planned start date of a trial over whether the billionaire Tesla founder must honor his agreement to buy the social media platform. Proceedings are…

Twitter said today it will debut an Edit Tweet button on subscription service Twitter Blue “in coming weeks.” It's the platform's most requested feature to date and will allows users to change published Tweets several times for up to 30 minutes. "Think of it as a short period of time to do things like fix typos, add…

In their latest exchange of legal fire, Twitter has rejected new claims from billionaire Elon Musk that a whistleblower’s claims about the company give him grounds to exit his proposed $44 billion takeover. Citing an effort in July by Musk to wriggle out of the deal, Twitter lawyer William Savitt described Musk’s…

Twitter subpoenaed whistleblower Peiter Zatko today, asking for a raft of documents including any related to his "separation" from the company and his buying or selling of Twitter stock. Allegations by Zatko, Twitter's former security chief, that the company is negligent in handling cybersecurity risk and in…

In the 24 hours since President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive some or all student loan debt for about 43 million Americans, Republican politicians have stormed conservative media outlets calling it “completely unfair” (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Newsmax) and “reckless” (Rep. Vern Buchanan on Fox Business)…

Twitter shares fell Tuesday after reports that its former security chief, disturbed by lax cybersecurity policies, filed a whistleblower complaint with federal agencies. Twitter responded that it had fired the executive, Pieter Zatko, in January for what it claims was poor performance, and that security and privacy…

Elon Musk has subpoenaed Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey in the lawsuit between the social media platform and the billionaire Tesla founded that once wanted to buy it. A flurry of subpoenas by both sides have been landing regularly in Delaware Chancery Court ever since a judge, or chancellor as they’re…

As part of a seemingly off-the-cuff tweet thread Tuesday night, Tesla founder and erstwhile Twitter suitor Elon Musk set off alarm bells in the footie world, saying, "I'm buying Manchester United." While the beleaguered club sits at the bottom of the Premier League table following a humiliating 4-0 loss at Brentford…

Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion worth of shares Tesla this month to help finance an acquisition of Twitter — a deal he is fighting in court to avoid. "In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don’t come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla…