Elon Musk asserts that as part of a $7.8 million severance compensation at issue in a court battle over the entrepreneur's attempt to block a takeover of the social media platform, Twitter, officials of Twitter Inc. gave a whistle-blower orders to destroy proof of their errors.

Peiter Zatko, the former head of security at Twitter, claimed that as part of a severance agreement, business managers asked him to erase 100 computer files and burn 10 handwritten notes. According to the documents, the books contained notes from the whistleblower's business associate meetings during his one-year stint as security head.

Musk has alleged that Twitter misled him about a number of operational issues at the social media platform, which allowed him to withdraw from the $44 billion acquisition of Zatko. Zatko has been the subject of Musk's claims. Last week, the billionaire had a change of heart and agreed to buy the business for $54.20 a share.

In an unsealed document in Twitter's Delaware lawsuit attempting to compel Musk to complete the sale, Musk's attorneys stated that while Twitter's attempt to buy Mr. Zatko's silence was unsuccessful, the company succeeded in assuring that Mr. Zatko's supporting evidence would never be made public.

The litigation was placed on hold last week by Delaware Chancery Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, who also allowed Twitter and Musk until October 28 to complete their deal. Musk's attorneys are asking McCormick to punish Twitter's attorneys for erasing potentially crucial evidence in the lawsuit.

Zatko caused a commotion in Washington when he said that Twitter's lackadaisical approach to computer security harmed US national security during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month.

According to Twitter, Zatko was fired in January for subpar work and for allegedly spreading 'a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security standards that is rife with inconsistencies and falsehoods and lacks crucial context.'

According to Twitter, Zatko was fired in January for subpar work and for allegedly spreading 'a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security standards that is rife with inconsistencies and falsehoods and lacks crucial context.'

Zatko asserts that he alerted Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal to serious privacy and information security issues with the company's business practises, which amounted to breaches of the company's agreements with government regulators. Furthermore, he asserted that his Twitter colleagues showed little interest in looking into the issue of how many spam and robot accounts were among the company's more than 230 million users.

Elon Musk's attorneys allege Agrawal, Twitter's top attorneys Vijaya Gadde and Sean Edgett, Chief Privacy Officer Damien Kieran, and Twitter of trying to conceal court settlement violations by instructing Zatko to erase his records.

According to the unsealed complaint, the document-destruction order denied Musk's legal team access to 'important supporting evidence of Mr. Zatko's allegations, which would support his account of crucial meetings and conversations relevant to this lawsuit.'

Twitter, on the other hand, complained in its own unsealed document that Jared Birchall, Musk's top adviser, did not show up to his pre-trial deposition in the lawsuit on September 21 prepared to respond to questions about a range of transaction-related matters.

Musk's assertions in the complaint received no immediate response from Twitter.