Twitter whistleblower says company had security vulnerabilities and 'no appetite' to measure bots: reports

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A whistleblower alleges that Twitter had serious security vulnerabilities on its platform and that its executives weren’t incentivized to reduce spam activity.

A whistleblower alleges that Twitter Inc. had serious security vulnerabilities on its platform and that its executives weren’t incentivized to reduce spam activity, according to reports from CNN and The Washington Post Tuesday.

Additionally, the disclosures said that Twitter executives able to obtain bonuses linked to increases in the company’s count of daily active users but that they didn’t have explicit incentives to reduce spam or bot activity on the platform, according to the Washington Post. CNN highlighted that Zatko said Twitter “had no appetite to properly measure the prevalence of bots.”

The CNN story quoted Musk lawyer Alex Spiro, who said that Musk’s team had already issued a subpoena to Zatko and was “curious” about his exit from the company.

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