Elon Musk has officially become the head of Twitter

According to Reuters and The Washington Post, Musk also fired chief legal officer Vijay Gadde and chief legal adviser Sean Edgett.

After buying the social network, Musk intended to fire 75% of Twitter employees.

• The businessman agreed to buy back Twitter in April, but in early July he officially backed out of the deal and informed the company about it. The reason was the overestimated number of real Twitter users, while some of them belong to bots.
• Twitter also assured that the participation of said accounts does not exceed 5% of the total number of users. The billionaire believed that fake accounts could exceed 20-25% of all Twitter users.
• Subsequently, the leadership of the social network filed a lawsuit against Musk, trying to force him to close the deal. According to the company, the billionaire is withdrawing from the deal due to the depreciation of Twitter shares. In late July, Musk filed a countersuit, the details of which were not disclosed.
• Musk then found a new reason to end the Twitter deal: a statement from former Twitter security chief Peter Zatko. He spoke about the shortcomings in the social network’s work with personal data, including the use of outdated software. Twitter called these claims false.
• In early October, Twitter accepted an offer from US billionaire Elon Musk to buy the company at the original price of $44 billion, and the parties plan to close the deal within a few weeks.