Musk, X Corp to settle $500-million lawsuit over Twitter firings

Elon Musk and his social media company X Corp have reached a tentative agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by former Twitter employees who said they were owed $500 million in severance pay.

Attorneys for X Corp and the former Twitter employees reported the deal in a Wednesday court filing, in which both sides asked a US appeals court to delay an upcoming court hearing so that they could finalise a deal that would pay the fired employees and end the litigation. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Musk fired approximately 6,000 employees…