Whistleblower ousts Twitter for lying to US regulators

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Twitter prioritised growth over reducing spambots.

Whistleblower ousts Twitter for lying to US regulators
Twitter misled federal regulators about its defences against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company's former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint. In an 84-page complaint, Zatko, a famed hacker widely known as "Mudge," alleged Twitter falsely claimed it had ...

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