It goes on to list problems under Musk’s leadership including the botched relaunch of the Twitter Blue subscription service and reports of site outages. The filing states that half of the platform’s employees were fired or resigned within weeks of the acquisition including “key executives in privacy, data security, and compliance roles”. The DoJ argues that Musk has “unique, firsthand” knowledge about the company’s data practices. The DoJ filing also counters X Corp’s argument that Musk should not have to testify about its compliance with the order. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. In March this year, it was disclosed that the FTC was investigating Musk’s mass layoffs at the company and trying to obtain his internal communications as part of ongoing oversight of the social media company’s privacy and cybersecurity practices, according to documents described in a congressional report. The filing says the FTC had to ask questions because of “sudden, radical changes” at X after Musk’s takeover in October last year. ![]() The DoJ filing claims X Corp is complaining that the FTC has asked “too many questions” since Musk bought the company. The updated order requires X Corp to implement a privacy and data security programme and update the FTC on compliance with it when asked. The DoJ said X Corp’s attempt to jettison that updated agreement, in a filing made in July, should be refused. In a settlement struck before Musk bought the company, it agreed to pay a $150m (£120m) fine and agreed to update a 2011 order that had been imposed by the FTC after an investigation into misrepresenting its data privacy and security practices to users. Last year the site’s parent company Twitter Inc, now known as X Corp, settled charges that it had misled consumers about the privacy and security of their data. Musk, according to the testimony, insisted that the service had to launch “right now” even though Twitter’s staffing was reduced so drastically that remaining employees were “struggling to keep the service up”. ![]() In a further example from the filing, another employee said the Tesla CEO “insisted on launching the new Twitter Blue user verification service on an accelerated basis, despite staffing limitations”. Twitter’s former director of security engineering, Andrew Sayler, testified that he had “ongoing questions about Elon’s commitment to the overall security and privacy of the organisation” because he thought “the manner in which Elon was requesting us to grant access to third parties that had not undergone our regular vetting process … some degree of disregard for the overall sensitivity and security at that level of access”. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022.
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