Twitter Shareholders Approve Sale To Elon Musk As He Fights To Terminate Deal

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Shareholders of Twitter voted Tuesday to approve the company’s sale to Elon Musk, a key administrative step that’s also a bit surreal as the billionaire Tesla founder is fighting in court to extricate himself from the deal.The vote was scheduled months ago.

It falls the same day a Twitter whistleblower is sounding off about the social media platform’s security and privacy policies, or lack thereof, at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, filed a whistleblower complaint against the company with federal agencies in July.

Twitter has called him a disgruntled employee.Today’s special stockholder meeting lasted only seven minutes with no questions.