U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Twitter's former security chief, who has alarmed Washington with allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts.
Leaders of several congressional panels are poring over the disclosures by respected cybersecurity expert Peiter Zatko, and calls on Capitol Hill for investigations are mounting. Zatko is due to testify next month at a Senate hearing.
Zatko also accused the San Francisco-based company of deceptions involving its handling of "spam," or fake, accounts, an allegation that is at the core of billionaire tycoon Elon Musk's attempt to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. The Judiciary Committee's chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and its senior Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a joint statement Wednesday that if Zatko's claims are accurate, "they may show dangerous data-privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world."
Twitter, with an estimated 238 million daily active users, said last month that it removes 1 million spam accounts daily. "If Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko left you asking, 'How could it possibly be this bad???,' you're not alone," Haugen tweeted Thursday. "Twitter's problems aren't unique, and we should worry."
Zatko's attorneys have said that in late 2021, after Twitter's board was given "whitewashed" information about security problems, Zatko escalated his concerns, "clashed" with Agrawal and board member Omid Kordestani, and was fired two weeks later.
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