Business Insider has the story of a Twitter engineer who was, according to him, fired by Elon Musk after being accused of leaking company information to the press:
Randall Lin was reportedly told that he had violated the employee handbook and was let go from Twitter in February 2023, several months into Elon Musk’s takeover.
Speaking to Zoë Schiffer in her newly released book, “Extremely Hardcore,” Lin said that someone lied about him leaking information to the press. Schiffer is a managing editor of the tech newsletter, Platformer.
And:
On 24 February 2023, Lin was called to meet with the corporate security team.
He says they claimed to have proof that he was the source behind two Platformer articles, written by Schiffer and a colleague — a report about the firing of an engineer who had been critical of Musk and a story about Musk’s tweets being boosted after the Super Bowl.
“I’ve never talked to Zoë [Schiffer] in my life,” he told the security team.
Schiffer corroborates this in the book, saying that she had never spoken to Lin at that point in time — and assumed that as he was so close to Musk’s inner circle, he wouldn’t talk to her.
But Lin’s laptop was taken and the following day he was fired.
As he left, Lin claims a colleague told him that James Musk, one of Elon Musk’s cousins, was telling people that Lin had admitted to leaking dozens of articles.
Fearing that he was going to be sued as well, he reached out to Schiffer for more information. She couldn’t tell him anything but passed on the names of two attorneys representing Twitter employees.
Troy Batterberry, CEO and Co-founder, EchoMark had this to say:
“People who leak or steal information harm the organization’s brand, employee morale, ongoing information flow, and customer trust. Collectively, this also damages leadership effectiveness. People who leak information are also typically sabotaging other aspects of the organization. To add insult to injury … organizations are literally paying these saboteurs to remain employed within their organization. Insiders leaking or stealing information is on the rise, too – growing nearly 50% annually.
“It’s important to be able to accurately identify the culprit and take action to stop the damage. At EchoMark, we have found that the use of stenography can help accurately identify the source of such leaks, and even prevent them from happening in the future.”
The problem is in this case that it doesn’t look like Elon Musk didn’t even try to get the facts right if you believe Mr. Lin’s account. Which is what we’ve come to expect from Elon as he’s not that detail oriented. Hopefully Mr. Lin sues the pants off of Elon to teach him some sort of lesson.
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Former Twitter Engineer Speaks Out After Being Fired By Elon Musk
Business Insider has the story of a Twitter engineer who was, according to him, fired by Elon Musk after being accused of leaking company information to the press:
Randall Lin was reportedly told that he had violated the employee handbook and was let go from Twitter in February 2023, several months into Elon Musk’s takeover.
Speaking to Zoë Schiffer in her newly released book, “Extremely Hardcore,” Lin said that someone lied about him leaking information to the press. Schiffer is a managing editor of the tech newsletter, Platformer.
And:
On 24 February 2023, Lin was called to meet with the corporate security team.
He says they claimed to have proof that he was the source behind two Platformer articles, written by Schiffer and a colleague — a report about the firing of an engineer who had been critical of Musk and a story about Musk’s tweets being boosted after the Super Bowl.
“I’ve never talked to Zoë [Schiffer] in my life,” he told the security team.
Schiffer corroborates this in the book, saying that she had never spoken to Lin at that point in time — and assumed that as he was so close to Musk’s inner circle, he wouldn’t talk to her.
But Lin’s laptop was taken and the following day he was fired.
As he left, Lin claims a colleague told him that James Musk, one of Elon Musk’s cousins, was telling people that Lin had admitted to leaking dozens of articles.
Fearing that he was going to be sued as well, he reached out to Schiffer for more information. She couldn’t tell him anything but passed on the names of two attorneys representing Twitter employees.
Troy Batterberry, CEO and Co-founder, EchoMark had this to say:
“People who leak or steal information harm the organization’s brand, employee morale, ongoing information flow, and customer trust. Collectively, this also damages leadership effectiveness. People who leak information are also typically sabotaging other aspects of the organization. To add insult to injury … organizations are literally paying these saboteurs to remain employed within their organization. Insiders leaking or stealing information is on the rise, too – growing nearly 50% annually.
“It’s important to be able to accurately identify the culprit and take action to stop the damage. At EchoMark, we have found that the use of stenography can help accurately identify the source of such leaks, and even prevent them from happening in the future.”
The problem is in this case that it doesn’t look like Elon Musk didn’t even try to get the facts right if you believe Mr. Lin’s account. Which is what we’ve come to expect from Elon as he’s not that detail oriented. Hopefully Mr. Lin sues the pants off of Elon to teach him some sort of lesson.
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