Elon Musk
Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, now X, in October 2022.
  • An ex-Twitter engineer claims that he was wrongfully fired after Elon Musk took over.
  • Randall Lin said he was accused of leaking information to the press, a claim he insists is false.
  • Lin's story is shared in Zoë Schiffer's new book: "Extremely Hardcore."

A former engineer at Twitter, now X, says that he was wrongfully fired from his job after being accused of leaking 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.