By Aly McDevitt2022-12-05T14:52:00
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he lit a match. The social media giant went up in flames as mass layoffs wiped out entire teams and impacted the lives of thousands of employees, internally known as Tweeps.
“It’s total chaos,” said former Twitter software engineer Eric Frohnhoefer. Frohnhoefer worked at the company for eight years before Musk fired him in a tweet. Why? Frohnhoefer publicly challenged him.
The software engineer wasn’t trying to get himself fired. It wasn’t a moral issue Frohnhoefer spoke out against; it was a technical one, the substance of which he understood deeply.
Didn’t matter. He was out of a job.
2025-03-27T16:24:00Z By Aly McDevitt
Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk has admitted he’s leading his businesses “with great difficulty” while serving as President Trump’s senior adviser. The carmaker’s shareholders are openly questioning his bandwidth. Why isn’t Tesla’s board firing him? He’s “doubly untouchable,” a corporate governance expert says.
2025-01-15T21:00:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and the apparent right-hand man of incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, has been taken to court for a third time by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly violating securities law.
2022-12-28T18:26:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
The Irish Data Protection Commission is investigating whether Twitter violated the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation regarding a data breach alleged to have affected 5.4 million users.
2025-09-03T11:37:00Z By Tom Fox
At their core, compliance officers are problem-solvers. They wrestle with thorny questions every day: How do we implement a global gifts-and-entertainment policy across jurisdictions with vastly different cultural norms? How do we balance business pressures with anti-corruption obligations? How do we address new risks like AI itself?
2025-09-02T14:19:00Z By Hemanth Kumar, Guest Contributor
Financial ecosystems are no longer confined within national boundaries. Money, technology, and risks flow seamlessly across jurisdictions, creating unprecedented challenges for compliance officers. From sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML) obligations to the rise of virtual assets, the compliance function must now navigate a complex, cross-border landscape where regulators, institutions, and ...
2025-08-29T20:52:00Z By Brett Erickson, guest contributor
In financial institutions across the United States, there’s a reflex that’s become almost ritual. When a regulator walks in, or a board member asks whether the AML program is working, the answer is the same: “We just passed audit.” It’s delivered with confidence, sometimes even pride, as if the risk ...
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