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£470k fine | Twitter employee wrongly sacked for not replying to Elon Musk's email ultimatum

Twitter employee wrongly sacked for not replying to Elon Musk's email ultimatum

A former senior employee at Twitter’s European headquarters has been awarded over £470,000 (€550,000) in compensation after a tribunal ruled that his failure to respond to an email from Elon Musk did not mean he had resigned.

In October 2022, Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, marking the beginning of a new era for the social media giant, which he later renamed X. 

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