Enlarge / Former Twitter safety chief Peiter Zatko, also called Mudge. (credit score: Getty Pictures | Washington Publish)
Elon Musk’s attorneys have subpoenaed Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko in hopes of bolstering Musk’s protection towards the lawsuit Twitter filed over their damaged merger deal.
The subpoena orders Zatko to supply an inventory of paperwork and to seem for an oral deposition on September 9, about 5 weeks earlier than the Musk/Twitter trial is scheduled to start on the Delaware Court docket of Chancery. The subpoena was filed Thursday and made public in the present day.
Zatko, a community safety knowledgeable also called “Mudge,” labored at Twitter from November 2020 till being fired in January 2022. His whistleblower grievance, which was made public final week, alleges that Zatko “uncovered excessive, egregious deficiencies by Twitter in each space of his mandate together with… person privateness, digital and bodily safety, and platform integrity/content material moderation.” It additionally claims that Twitter is responsible of “mendacity about bots to Elon Musk.”
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