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As Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone

Twitter's terminally-online CEO has kicked up legal trouble from California to Germany. Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.

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Max Burns
Jan 31, 2023
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Last month, I warned that Twitter CEO and Russian election interference truther Elon Musk was steering his $44 billion toy into precarious legal waters. From failing to pay rent on Twitter’s office buildings to firing employees in ways that appeared to violate California labor laws to picking fights with European privacy and data security regulators, Mu…

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