The world’s richest man closed his blockbuster purchase of the social media service, thrusting Twitter into a new era.

Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.

The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to identify the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code.

The company said on Thursday that it was looking into the scope of the apparent hack.

Mr. Musk ordered immediate layoffs, fired executives by email and laid down product deadlines, transforming the company.

Dan Price was applauded for paying a minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle company and criticizing corporate greed. The adulation helped to hide and enable his behavior.

Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter’s underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.

The social media company’s 7,500 employees have been bracing for job cuts since Mr. Musk took it over last week.

The agency said Mr. Musk was subpoenaed to testify last month about his purchases of Twitter’s stock last year, but he failed to appear.

Classified documents detailing secret American and NATO plans have appeared on Twitter and Telegram.

Users and employees had raised concerns that Elon Musk’s plan to give check marks to those who paid a monthly fee could be misused to sow discord.

The question of whether Elon Musk must buy Twitter, as he agreed to do in April, is headed to a court in Delaware.

The commission is seeking an interview with Elon Musk, who has made major cuts at the company since acquiring it last year.

Mr. Musk, who is rapidly transforming the social media company, also has cut its contractor work force.

The billionaire began as Twitter’s new owner by announcing a content moderation council and meeting employees, as some of the social media service’s users celebrated.

The plaintiffs, including Parag Agrawal, the former chief executive, are asking for severance after they lost their jobs during Mr. Musk’s 2022 takeover of the company.

Elon Musk’s social media company sued a group that exposed hate speech on the site, but a judge ruled that the suit was designed to punish speech.

Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views. “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain.

The case showed the intensity of the kingdom’s interest in tracking dissidents, and the timing this week is fraught for U.S.-Saudi relations.

In his first communications with Twitter’s staff, the company’s new owner painted a bleak picture as more executives resigned.

The layoffs hit across many divisions, including the engineering and machine learning units, the teams that manage content moderation, and the sales and advertising departments.

A judge in Delaware gave Mr. Musk until Oct. 28 to complete the deal. The trial, which was set to start in a little more than a week, could still happen in November.

Twitter called the claims false and irrelevant in a high-profile legal fight over whether the billionaire can back out of a $44 billion deal to acquire the company.

The decline of Salinas' 152-year-old newspaper leaves residents hungry for a trusted watchdog and worried about what stories won't be covered.

Before Mr. Musk renewed his $44 billion proposal, he and the company haggled in discussions that ultimately did not advance.

Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm - twitter/the-algorithm

The chief executive of Tesla testified in a federal civil trial about a 2018 plan to take the automaker private that fizzled out.

Elon Musk’s social media service “throttled” access to sites such as Substack and Facebook, according to an analysis, but began reversing the slow access to news sites.