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Twitter whistleblower says company had Chinese agent on payroll

. Among the new allegations was that the company had a Chinese agent working for the country's Ministry of State Security on its payroll.

During his opening statement, Sen. Chuck Grassley stated that “the FBI notified Twitter of at least one Chinese agent in the company." In the public version of his whistleblower complaint, Zatko stated he had been warned that the company was employing “one or more” people who were “working on behalf of another particular foreign intelligence agency.” But the version of the complaint made public, parts of which were redacted, didn’t specify what country the FBI was referring to.

In his testimony, Zatko confirmed the company had been warned about the presence of Chinese agents. “This was made aware to me maybe a week before I was summarily dismissed,” Zatko said. “I had been told because the corporate security/physical security team had been contacted and told that there was at least one agent of the MSS, which is one of China’s intelligence services on the payroll inside Twitter.”You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu.

 

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No doubt why my some critical/crucial(suggestion/idea) tweets to pmoindia and premier goes missing use my idea but delete the same tweet. TwitterIndia may be toeing the govt line OR an agent inside Twitter .

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Convenient how this whistleblower materialized when Elon decided to back out after talking Al that shit about buying Twitter.

This drama is going f*cking ridiculous now

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