Elon Musk told Twitter he now has fresh reasons to walk away from the $44 billion deal after whistleblower complaint

Elon Musk.

Elon Musk sent a letter to Twitter Tuesday saying he now has more reasons for why he believes he can legitimately abandon his $44 billion proposal to buy the company, Bloomberg reports.

Musk cited the recent whistleblower disclosure from former head of Twitter cybersecurity Peiter Zatko, also known by his hacker name “Mudge.”

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Zatko filed a wide-ranging whistleblower complaint against Twitter in July which became public last week.

Previously Musk’s argument for getting out of his deal with Twitter rested on a claim that the platform had more bots on it than the company had disclosed.

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