Elon Musk repeatedly made business decisions after his takeover of Twitter last year that violated the company’s internal policies, a new court filing alleges.
. According to the filing, that probe “revealed a chaotic environment at the company that raised serious questions about whether and how Musk and other leaders were ensuring [the company’s] compliance” with the 2022 consent order.
The new details about Musk’s handling of the FTC order come as the government opposes a request by X, Twitter’s new name, to have a federal court dismiss the consent agreement and shield Musk from a deposition. The filing marks the first official confirmation of the extent of the FTC’sMusk “exercised granular control of X Corp., at times directing employees in a manner that may have jeopardized data privacy and security,” according to the filing.
Multiple employees testified that Musk gave directives that were at odds with the company’s normal processes and policies. In December 2022, Musk directed that company servers be moved from one data center to another.
service Twitter Blue so quickly that a security and privacy review was not conducted as required by the company’s own policies, according to a depositionMusk’s cost cutting measures — which included five rounds of layoffs between October and December of last year — “impaired” the company from complying with data security promises it made to the government in 2022, according to the filing.
The consent order is one of the government’s most powerful tools to address alleged data privacy abuses in the absence of a federal privacy law. It has emerged as a political lightning rod as Musk and House Republicans have accused FTC Chair Lina Khan of “harassing” X.X’s arguments have in part hinged on allegations that the FTC attempted to influence Ernst & Young, an independent auditor Twitter hired to asses its compliance with the order.
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