{"id":1772054,"date":"2022-12-12T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772054"},"modified":"2022-12-12T08:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:33:26","slug":"elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-twitter-employees-who-break-their-ndas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-twitter-employees-who-break-their-ndas\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Twitter Employees Who Break Their NDAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-threatens-to-sue-twitter-employees-who-break-their-ndas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/original_musk2.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/elon-musk-says-his-pronouns-are-prosecute-fauci\">Elon Musk<\/a> sent out an email to Twitter employees reminding them that violating the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that they signed when they were hired prohibits them from revealing sensitive company information to the media or the public, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/12\/10\/elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-twitter-employees-who-leak-information\/\">Fortune<\/a> has reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As evidenced by the many detailed leaks of confidential <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-twitter-files-part-two-released-exposing-secret-blacklists\">Twitter<\/a> information, a few people at our company continue to act in a manner contrary to the company&#8217;s interests and in violation of their NDA,&#8221; Musk said in an email to employees.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0copy of the email was obtained by Zoe Schiffer, managing editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformer.news\/\">Platformer<\/a>\u00a0and a senior reporter at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/zoe-schiffer\">The Verge<\/a>, where she &#8220;reports on labor and workplace organizing.&#8221; She posted the email&#8217;s contents to Twitter on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fortune, &#8220;Ironically, it appears Schiffer learned of Musk\u2019s latest demands via the very kind of leak he\u2019s addressing, and posted her findings on the platform he now owns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He&#8217;s asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they&#8217;ve understood. Here&#8217;s the email,&#8221; she posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This will be said only once: If you clearly and deliberately violate the NDA that you signed when you joined, you accept liability to the full extent of the law &#038; Twitter will immediately seek damages,&#8221; the email continues.<\/p>\n<p>NDAs are standard practice in the United States, with an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/the-nondisclosure-agreement-time-to-revamp\">one-third<\/a> of employees bound by them.<\/p>\n<p>Schiffer said that Musk is &#8220;asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they&#8217;ve understood&#8221; the consequences of violating their NDA, giving them until 5 pm that day to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Musk says occasional slip ups are understandable &#8216;but breaking your word by sending detailed info to the media&#8217; with the intent to harm Twitter &#8216;will receive the response it deserves&#8217;,&#8221; Schiffer said.<\/p>\n<p>She opted to only post specific quotes from the email rather than the whole thing, &#8220;as it&#8217;s clear Twitter is doing everything it can to catch sources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KistnerSteve\/status\/1601618035357675521?s=20&#038;t=YokvGdx178_qakQsv_A71A\">stated before<\/a> that seemingly identical emails sent out to his employees have been &#8220;coded with either one or two spaces between sentences, forming a binary signature that [can identify] the leaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since Musk&#8217;s acquisition of Twitter in late October, he has posted to the site his commitment to providing free speech on the social media platform and has released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-twitter-files-part-two-released-exposing-secret-blacklists\">formerly-classified information<\/a> about Twitter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-twitter-files-reveal-staff-have-access-to-users-dms\">shady practices<\/a> that had resulted in a number of prominent conservatives <a href=\"http:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-twitter-files-reveal-conservatives-dan-bongino-charlie-kirk-were-consistently-blacklisted\">being muzzled<\/a> in some form or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk sent out an email to Twitter employees reminding them that violating the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that they signed when they were hired prohibits them from revealing sensitive company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1772057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,5324,4249,5183,4250,8032,3819,7170,4622,4253],"class_list":["post-1772054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-break","tag-elon","tag-employees","tag-musk","tag-ndas","tag-report","tag-sue","tag-threatens","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}