![]() Kohm did not respond to emails seeking comment. official who oversees investigations into whether companies are complying with their privacy settlements with the agency, according to the email. Musk’s outreach indicated that he spoke with Ms. The email among agency staff members discussing Mr. requests, I will be happy to consider scheduling a meeting with Mr. ![]() “Once Twitter has fully complied with all F.T.C. “I recommend that Twitter appropriately prioritize its legal obligations to provide the requested information,” she wrote. She said she was “troubled by Twitter’s delays and the obstacles that these delays are creating for the F.T.C.’s investigation.” 27 letter to Twitter, she noted that the company was under investigation and had dragged its heels in providing documents to the F.T.C., delaying depositions with witnesses including Mr. Acting on the enforcement team’s advice, Ms. Khan, she consulted with the enforcement division inside the F.T.C.’s consumer protection bureau, which has been leading the Twitter investigation, according to the email among agency staff members describing the situation. Musk took over Twitter in October and conducted mass layoffs, which were compounded by the resignations of privacy and compliance executives.Īfter Mr. ![]() Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former security chief, said in a whistle-blower complaint made public in August that the company had failed to abide by the terms of the 2011 agreement, renewing inquiries from the F.T.C. Musk for the investigation the interview has not occurred, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The agency has separately sought to interview Mr. Musk bought it last year and then laid off thousands of employees. The investigation is focused on whether the social media company has adequate resources to protect its users’ privacy after Mr. points to the gravity of the agency’s inquiry into Twitter. Wilson plans to leave the agency on Friday over what she has said are concerns about Ms. Musk spoke last month with the F.T.C.’s lone Republican commissioner, Christine Wilson, according to an email between the agency’s staff members and two people with knowledge of the matter. Khan told a Twitter lawyer to focus on complying with investigators’ demands for information before she would consider meeting with Mr. Musk made the attempt late last year, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Musk, who owns Twitter, asked to meet with Lina Khan, the F.T.C.’s chair, but was rebuffed, according to the documents. Elon Musk tried engaging with the Federal Trade Commission as the agency intensified an investigation into Twitter’s privacy and data practices, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times, in a sign of the billionaire’s hands-on approach to the inquiry.
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