Musk Says Twitter Whistleblower Payment Is Another Reason to Scrap Merger

Musk Says Twitter Whistleblower Payment Is Another Reason to Scrap Merger
Elon Musk's Twitter profile on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos on April 28, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
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WILMINGTON, Del.—Elon Musk contended that Twitter Inc.’s decision to pay millions of dollars to a whistleblower it had fired gives the world’s richest person another justification for terminating his $44 billion agreement to buy the social media company.

In a Friday letter to Twitter, lawyers for Musk said Twitter’s failure to seek his consent before paying $7.75 million to Peiter Zatko and his lawyers violated the merger agreement, which restricted when Twitter could make such payments.