Twitter hid security flaws and fake accounts, ex-executive denounces

“Twitter covered up security flaws and the existence of fake accounts”, highlights Financial Times, on the cover of Tuesday's digital edition (23) (I.e.*. The newspaper provides even more details of the complaint made by a former executive of the social network in the print edition of the newspaper on Wednesday (24). In the report, Twitter dismisses what it calls “false allegations” that could reinforce the thesis of Elon Musk – the eccentric owner of Tesla – who announced the purchase of the social network but withdrew from the deal.

Already North American network CNN (🚥) highlights that Twitter has “major security problems that pose a threat to the personal information of its own users, the company's shareholders, national security and democracy”, according to Peiter Zatko, who was the company's head of security, reporting directly to the CEO.

The complaint was sent last month to the US Congress and federal agencies and released this Tuesday exclusively by CNN and the The Washington Post ((I.e. *).

The whistleblower cites a chaotic and reckless scenario at a poorly managed company that allows many of its employees to access the platform's central controls and most sensitive information without adequate supervision. 

He also alleges that some of the company's most senior executives are trying to cover up Twitter's serious vulnerabilities and that one or more current employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service.

And Elon Musk therefore?

According to the complaint, Twitter executives do not have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots (autonomous applications that run on the internet while performing some type of pre-determined task) on the platform and were not motivated to do so. 

that's where it comes in Elon Musk. Bots have become central to the website owner's attempts to Tesla of backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company.

The news, therefore, could help Musk: when giving up on buying the social network, he claimed that Twitter did not provide enough information about the number of fake and spam accounts that exist on the social network.

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