    {"id":37198,"date":"2023-02-21T10:54:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T10:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.whatjobs.com\/?p=37198"},"modified":"2023-02-21T10:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T10:54:24","slug":"twitter-facing-lawsuits-over-14-million-in-unpaid-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/twitter-facing-lawsuits-over-14-million-in-unpaid-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter facing lawsuits over $14 million in unpaid bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twitter is facing numerous lawsuits over $14 million in unpaid bills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/under-elon-musk-twitter-faces-suits-claiming-over-14-million-in-unpaid-bills-484d8bc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Wall Street Journal\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports Elon Musk&#8217;s social media giant faces a number of suits from companies providing services like advertising, data analytics and content moderation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the plaintiffs is Revcontent LLC, a digital advertising company that is claiming more than $3.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/news\/elon-musks-replacement-as-twitter-ceo-should-be-named-by-end-of-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"READ MORE: Elon Musk\u2019s replacement as Twitter CEO should be named by end of 2023\">READ MORE: Elon Musk\u2019s replacement as Twitter CEO should be named by end of 2023<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another is Appen Limited, which is seeking more than $2.9 million for work done in data analytics and content moderation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of the suits has been held yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Conway, a restructuring expert who has helped distressed companies for almost 40 years, said: \u201cWhat Elon Musk is doing is basically simulating a bankruptcy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He is taking a machete to his costs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Need Career Advice? <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/info\/category\/career-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career.\"><strong>Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three of the U.S. lawsuits involve office space, including the company\u2019s headquarters in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The landlord of claims Twitter has not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/news\/twitter-faces-lawsuit-for-non-payment-of-136000-rent-on-san-francisco-headquarters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"paid almost $6.8 million in rent\">paid almost $6.8 million in rent<\/a> payments&nbsp;for December and January.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk has just won a lawsuit where it was claimed false tweets about a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/news\/elon-musk-wins-securities-fraud-lawsuit-over-2018-tesla-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"takeover lost investors billions of dollars\">takeover lost investors billions of dollars<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He now says Twitter is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/news\/elon-musk-says-twitter-is-trending-to-breakeven-after-bankruptcy-warnings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"&quot;trending to breakeven&quot;\"><strong>&#8220;trending to breakeven&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> after his takeover and drastic cost-cutting measures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow us on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCq7Ngf1IK1GJMZUmg6WXVfg\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhatJobsNews\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/whatjobsnews\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a><strong>, and <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whatjobscom\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports Elon Musk&#8217;s social media giant faces a number of suits from companies providing services like advertising, data analytics and content moderation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-37198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}