Twitter, Inc. filed a Form 8-K for the event date October 27, 2022 (signature block October 28, 2022, /s/ Elon Musk, Authorized Officer). Introductory note and Item 2.01: pursuant to the April 25, 2022 merger agreement with X Holdings I, Inc., X Holdings II, Inc., and, for certain provisions, Elon R. Musk, the merger was consummated on October 27, 2022. Twitter became a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, "majority-owned and controlled by Mr. Musk." Each issued and outstanding share of common stock (subject to stated exceptions) was canceled and converted into the right to receive $54.20 in cash.
Item 5.01: "As a result of the consummation of the Merger, a change in control of Twitter occurred." Item 5.02: on October 27, 2022, "as a result of the consummation of the Merger, Mr. Musk became the sole director of Twitter." The directors who "are no longer directors" are named: Bret Taylor, Parag Agrawal, Omid Kordestani, David Rosenblatt, Martha Lane Fox, Patrick Pichette, Egon Durban, Fei-Fei Li, and Mimi Alemayehou. Ned Segal is not on that director list. The 8-K does not contain a sentence that Twitter fired its CFO. A change-in-control is what the filing records. The firing is a separate news claim, collected in the next episode.