“His career of ethical and effective leadership speaks for itself,” John Tye, the group’s chief disclosure officer, said in an emailed statement. Whistleblower Aid, which represents him, said he stands by his disclosures. Twitter said Zatko’s allegations and “opportunistic timing” seemed “designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.” It added that “security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be” and that it “fully stands by its prior statements about the percentage of bot and spam accounts on the service.”īloomberg was unable to reach Zatko for comment.
“What we’ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context.” Zatko was fired from his senior executive role at Twitter in January 2022 for ineffective leadership and poor performance,” the company said in a statement. Zatko’s complaint was reported earlier by the Washington Post and CNN. Spiro said he learned from court filings that Twitter officials didn’t consider Zatko to be knowledgeable about spam accounts on the system and that they declined to search Zatko’s files as part of the exchange of information in the case. Zatko alleges Twitter executives failed to disclose the true extent of such accounts on the platform. At the center of Musk’s defense are the company’s disclosures about the quality of its customer base as it is affected by spam and automated accounts.
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Since then, dozens of people, banks, funds and other firms have been subpoenaed in the Delaware lawsuit, with a trial scheduled to begin Oct. Twitter sued Musk in July to force him to complete his proposed acquisition. Zatko, and we found his exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been finding,” Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Musk, said in a statement Tuesday. “We have already issued a subpoena for Mr. His Twitter colleagues showed no interest in delving into the issue, according to the complaint. Zatko, fired from Twitter earlier this year, said he raised concerns about the bots in early 2021 and was told by the head of site integrity that Twitter didn’t know how many bots were on the platform. authorities to “egregious deficiencies” in the company’s defenses against hackers, according to his complaint. Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s ex-head of security, alerted U.S. A whistleblower’s complaint alleging Twitter ignored a rash of spam and bot accounts could help Elon Musk in his effort to walk away from a $44-billion buyout of the social media platform, legal experts say.