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Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for USD128 million in severance payments

Former top Twitter executives, including Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk, claiming the Tesla CEO had withheld USD128 million in severance payments after the billionaire took over the social media company in 2022 and dismissed them, according to The New York Times. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Ex-Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for $128m in severance pay

Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal and other top executives accuse Musk of believing ‘rules don’t apply to him’.

Al Jazeera

Ex-Twitter Execs Sue Musk For Unpaid Severance

Former top executives of Twitter sued Elon Musk on Monday saying he has failed to pay them nearly $130 million after the billionaire took over the social media company and dismissed them.

International Business Times

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Parag Agrawal, other Twitter executives win $1.1 million in legal fees from Elon Musk’s X

X Corp, formerly known as Twitter, must pay $1.1 million in legal fees racked up by a group of the social-media platform’s former top executives, a judge ruled.

The Times of India

Elon Musk doubted ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal because he was too nice

While Musk felt Twitter's former CEO was a 'nice guy,' he wants managers to be unconcerned about being liked, according to a new biography.

Fortune

Twitter’s ex-CEO sues company after legal turmoil

Parag Agrawal and other executives allege they have spent more than $1m out of pocket on fees

The Guardian - US

Twitter's ex-CEO and other execs fired by Musk sue platform over unpaid legal fees

The lawsuit says this includes payments to cover counsel for probes by the DOJ and SEC.

Axios

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House Republicans’ Hunter Biden investigation begins with a thud

WASHINGTON — House Republicans failed in the opening salvo of their investigation into the finances of Joe Biden’s family to produce evidence substantiating their claims that U.S. intelligence officials worked with Twitter Inc. to suppress an unflattering 2020 news story on the president’s son.

Tribune News Service

Former Twitter officials admit mistake squelching Hunter Biden story

WASHINGTON — Former Twitter Inc. officials acknowledged that blocking the spread of a news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was a mistake, but they told lawmakers the action was not politically motivated or directed by FBI or U.S. intelligence officials.

Tribune News Service

Republicans grill ex-Twitter executives over handling of Hunter Biden story

Social media company temporarily restricted New York Post article in 2020 about contents of Joe Biden’s son abandoned computer

The Guardian - US

Twitter Files: FBI, DHS Reported Tweets for Election Misinformation

Content moderators had "weekly confabs" with law enforcement officials, reports Matt Taibbi.

Reason

Twitter had ‘secret blacklists’ to limit users, journalist claims

Independent journalist Bari Weiss says platform restricted visibility of ‘disfavored tweets’.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: Elon Musk’s Twitter shows its dark side

For Twitter’s 200 million-plus daily active users, it’s been a long, strange week and a half. Elon Musk, billionaire, CEO and Twitter superfan, spent $44 billion on a much-contested, overvalued and at times dubious acquisition of his very favorite corner of the internet. Besides firing Twitter’s top leadership and half…

Los Angeles Times

No, Elon Musk didn’t fire a Twitter employee live on the radio

Twitter users have been circulating a video that appears to show Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, firing an employee in the middle of an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast. Certain corners of Twitter, frustrated by limits on what they could tweet, have been celebrating Musk’s takeover, saying…

France 24

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The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk running Twitter? It’s like giving a monkey a delicate clock

The tech magnate’s purchase of the social media platform was the easy bit – now he must be responsible for toxic content, writes technology professor John Naughton

The Independent UK

Looming elections in US, Brazil pose test for Musk's Twitter

Pivotal elections in Brazil and the United States are likely to pose the first big challenges to Elon Musk and his promise to relax content moderation on Twitter

The Independent UK

Musk takes over Twitter and faces social media crash course

Twitter’s newly minted owner, the self-described “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk, is about to get a crash course on global content moderation

The Guardian - UK

Twitter bosses entitled to $120m in ‘golden parachute’ payouts

Compensation for fired executives adds to already hefty bill for Elon Musk’s debt-funded takeover

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The Guardian - US

Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover amid hate speech concerns

Shares delisted and top execs reportedly fired as world’s richest man closes deal to buy social media platform

The Times of India

‘Bird is freed’: Musk takes Twitter; Parag Agrawal and Vijaya Gadde are said to exit with big payouts

WASHINGTON: Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk wasted no time on Thursday firing CEO Parag Agrawal, legal head Vijaya Gadde and three other top executives of the company moments after he took charge, tweeting “the bird is freed” to indicate the social media platform would now be more open to unfettered…

The Times of India

Rahul Gandhi hopes Twitter will now act against hate speech, not stifle voice of opposition in India

NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said that, he hoped that Twitter would now act against hate speech, check facts more robustly and not stifle the voice of the opposition in India, soon after billionaire Elon Musk took over the social media giant and fired four of its top…

Benzinga

Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter: Who's In Charge, Who's Gone And What Happens To The Stock?

A highly anticipated takeover of a leading social media platform looks to be finalized Friday.

The Guardian - US

Twitter takeover: fears raised over disinformation and hate speech

EU commissioner says Elon Musk’s platform must ‘fly by our rules’ as UK minister raises concerns over content moderation

Daily Mirror

Sweeping Twitter changes may be coming - tweet editing, no banned accounts and payments

Elon Musk has completed the purchase of Twitter and seems to have grand plans - including the creation of a 'super app', employees being fired and the returns of Donald Trump and Kanye West

The Independent UK

Musk in control of Twitter but where will he go from here?

Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty

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