{"id":14269,"date":"2022-09-10T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/10\/elon-musk-sends-yet-another-notice-trying-to-terminate-the-twitter-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T14:41:22","slug":"elon-musk-sends-yet-another-notice-trying-to-terminate-the-twitter-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/10\/elon-musk-sends-yet-another-notice-trying-to-terminate-the-twitter-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk sends yet another notice trying to terminate the Twitter deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/9\/23345286\/elon-musk-twitter-third-termination-notice-letter-deal-acquisition<\/a>
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Elon Musk has sent a third letter to Twitter attempting to terminate his $44 billion acquisition of the company<\/a>. Musk\u2019s legal team cited Twitter\u2019s multimillion dollar severance payment to former security chief and whistleblower Peiter Zatko as a violation of the merger agreement and a reason to end the deal. The letter, dated September 9th, was sent to Twitter\u2019s chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and was included in a filing<\/a> Twitter made with the SEC on Friday (which you can read at the bottom of this article). <\/p>\n

Last month, Zatko made headlines by accusing Twitter<\/a> of misleading investors about the number of bots on the service, failing to delete users\u2019 data, and having poor security practices, among other things. Musk jumped on the accusations, citing them in his second termination letter<\/a> and subpoenaing Zatko<\/a> to testify in the lawsuit. Zatko was set to be deposed on Friday. <\/p>\n