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Whistleblower ousts Twitter for lying to US regulators

By Chavi Mehta

Aug 24 2022 9:05AM

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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