There's been a dispute with that landlord since before Elon bought twitter, and not paying rent is Twitter's way of negotiating and other organizations/companies do similar tactics all the time. If you're in a contentious legal situation with another group, withholding payment and making an argument you're allowed to do so under the lease is perfectly normal.
Unfortunately reporting on this is awful and biased and doesn't include nuance like this. It's just "omg twitter is broke and run by an idiot".
Is there something else that's relevant? It's 300+ pages of all the information around the situation, though admittedly biased from the landlord's perspective
I was hoping to read more about the dispute you were talking about.
As far as I can tell the dispute is that twitter didn't pay the rent and the building owner wants them to pay the rent, which is how this has been reported.
Unfortunately reporting on this is awful and biased and doesn't include nuance like this. It's just "omg twitter is broke and run by an idiot".