Musk, X Corp. Sued for Severance by Ex-Twitter Marketing Officer

Twitter Inc.'s former chief marketing officer sued Elon Musk and X Corp., saying she was wrongly denied about $20 million in severance after Musk fired her based on a disagreement connected to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.

Leslie Berland, who served as Twitter’s CMO for nearly seven years, says she was abruptly fired following an October 2022 incident in which Musk met with advertisers in the days after his takeover of the company.

According to Berland, Musk went “off script” at the meeting and suggested he “send a Tweet teasing the reinstatement of Donald Trump’s then-suspended Twitter account.” Musk ...