Ex-Twitter executive says Musk fired him for raising security concerns

Former Twitter head of information security claims he was fired after raising concerns about cost cuts at Elon Musk’s company

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — The former head of information security at Twitter, now called X, is accusing the company of firing him after he objected to demands by owner Elon Musk and his associates to make cuts to safety systems. Shortly after Musk’s takeover of Twitter late last year, the billionaire’s leadership team demanded cuts to physical and digital security that threatened to put the company out of compliance with multiple regu…

Former Twitter head of information security claims he was fired after raising concerns about cost cuts at Elon Musk’s company

The former head of information security at Twitter, now called X, is accusing the company of firing him after he objected to demands by owner Elon Musk and his associates to make cuts to safety systems.

Ex–Twitter exec claims Elon Musk’s cost-cutting zeal gutted a federal agreement—and says he was fired for sounding the alarm

Alan Rosa said Twitter unlawfully fired him and denied him severance over his refusal to breach an FTC consent decree.

Ex-Twitter executive says Musk fired him for raising security concerns

A former executive who worked under Elon Musk after he purchased Twitter filed a lawsuit against the tech billionaire, claiming he was fired for raising concerns about security issues on the platform now known as X. Alan Rosa, the former head of Twitter’s global information security, filed the suit in a New Jersey federal court…

Ex-Twitter security head claims the company fired him to flout regulations

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Alan Rosa, former head of security for Twitter, filed a lawsuit against X, Elon Musk, and company adviser Steve Davis, alleging that he was wrongly fired for protesting Musk-led cost-cutting measures. Lawyers for Rosa wrote in the complaint that the cuts hampered Twitter’s ability to comply with the regulatory demands of the Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission. The lawsu…

Elon Musk fired Twitter executive for raising security concerns, lawsuit says

Alan Rosa says he objected to budget cuts that would have put Twitter, now X, at risk of violating a security practices settlement