Minutes after deal closes, Elon Musk fires senior Twitter leadership and has them escorted

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As the bell tolls for the end of the first chapter of Twitter's life as a deep state narrative-enabling machine, the firings have begun with Musk becoming 'Chief Twit'.

Just minutes after the world's richest man has reportedly closed the $44 billion deal, The NYTimes reports that, according to sources that declined to be identified, the Twitter executives who were fired include:

Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive,

Ned Segal, the chief financial officer,

Vijaya Gadde, the top legal and policy executive, (or censorship czar) and

Sean Edgett, the general counsel.

At least one of the executives who was fired was escorted out of Twitter’s office, they said.

Please do not feel too bad for these poor executives, as Insider reports, through "change in control" provisions in employment contracts for top leadership, they will receive a certain amount of severance and an automatic acceleration of their shares, so long as Musk fires them.

The provisions are disclosed in regulatory filings.

Agrawal is set to receive the largest payout of $38.7 million, due largely to the entirety of his shares vesting upon his firing.

Segal is set to receive a $25.4 million payout for getting fired.

Vijaya Gadde will leave with $12.5 million.

As we detailed earlier, over 1,100 employees have left Twitter since Musk announced his intention to buy the company back in January, with almost a third going to Google or Meta.

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