A TWITTER whistleblower has brought to light that the company, allegedly, still possesses a program that allows its engineers to tweet a post from any account with impunity. The whistleblower has said this to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a US Congress committee.
The program, earlier known as the 'GodMode', is still available with the engineers at Twitter and makes it possible for them to log in to any account on the micro-blogging site and write, restore, or delete tweets, according to a report by The Washinton Post. This gives Twitter engineers immense powers to manipulate content on their platform.
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Twitter engineers may have the access to this program on their company laptops. Importantly, the company does not have the ability to record who is using the program, according to the whistleblower.
Earlier, Twitter had found itself under the scanner of authorities when in 2020, for a very brief time, some verified accounts belonging to some of the world’s most high-profile personalities were taken over using this program. Hackers had gained access to this program, allowing them to highjack the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates. Ultimately this incident had not turned out to be as disastrous as it had the potential to be.
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