https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/elon-musk-completes-twitter-purchase-immediately-fires-ceo-and-other-execs/ > Elon Musk completed the $44 billion purchase of Twitter today, capping a months-long saga that resulted in Twitter suing Musk to force him to honor their merger agreement. Musk's first course of business was to fire top executives. > "Musk fired Chief Executive Parag Agrawal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal after the deal closed" on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal wrote. Twitter legal chief Vijaya Gadde was also fired by Musk.