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Friday, April 24, 2026

Twitter ban: Nigeria lied about negotiations, says whistleblower - Businessday

The Nigerian government’s claim in January 2022 that it lifted the six months-long suspension of Twitter operations in the country because the tech company had agreed to meet all six of its conditions is false, a former member of Twitter’s senior executive team has said.

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko made the disclosure to the US Federal Trade Commission under Whistleblower Aid. Lawyers to Zatko confirmed that he was employed as “security lead”, a member of the senior executive team responsible for information security, privacy, physical security, information technology, and Twitter Service (the corporate division responsible for global content moderation enforcement) at Twitter, Inc. from November 16, 2020 until the morning of January 19, 2022, when CEO Parag Agrawal terminated his employment.

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