Posted on 12/12/2022 9:57:22 AM PST by Rummyfan
Before the Elon Musk buyout, Twitter looks like the worst-run tech company ever with new revelations about lax security, no oversight, and a corporate culture geared towards hiding the ugly truth from the company’s own board of directors and the FTC.
Former CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal have some ‘splainin to do.
Almost unnoticed among the more salacious #TwitterFiles reveals from Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger, “the stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier,” according to Twitter user Avid Halaby. Halaby did a deep dive into the newly released insider materials, and his Twitter thread shows a company that was a Rube Goldberg device of bad policies and worse execution.
Whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko is the company’s former Security Lead and a longtime advocate of better internet security practices. Zatko first went public back in August, with CNN reporting his claim that “Twitter trusted far too many employees with access to sensitive user data, creating a fragile security posture that an outsider could exploit to wreak havoc on the platform,” and that “one or more current Twitter employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service,” and that “Agrawal misled the company’s board of directors by discouraging Zatko from providing a full account of Twitter’s security weaknesses.
Halaby reports that in 2020, “Twitter had security incidents serious enough they had to be reported to the federal government on an almost weekly basis.” At the exact same time, Agarwal “was lying about how secure” the platform was.
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Elon Musk has fired 80%+ of Twitters employees and the company is still operating!
Those 80% were there to block free speech and promote the democrat party.
Musk tweeted that he bought a crime scene. If twitter was shadowing banning and permanently suspending users without disclosing those actions to investors and advertisers I can foresee some potential legal action against past executives and directors. This could even spill over to other companies..
Ping and Jack Dorsey (the gold nose ring dude) is to blame. He is a very clever dodger.
Twitter Was the Worst-Run Tech Company in the World
We may never know that all the other tech companies lawyers have the scrubbing their files incase the fed want a peek at them a another keep your ass covered act.
Their greatest fear Trump lawyers or feds filing papers on them.
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