Elon Musk’s trying hard to reject Twitter but shareholders say they must have him—while a whistleblower squeals to Senate
Although world’s richest man Elon Musk has been trying for months to extricate himself from his $44 billion bid to acquire Twitter, to the point where the company is suing him to make the deal, Twitter’s savvy shareholders voted Tuesday to accept the SpaceX chief’s generous offer, CNBC reports.
The vote seeking new leadership coincides with Musk’s new favorite friend—whistleblower and former Twitter chief security officer Peiter “Mudge” Zatko—making an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. The judge in the Delaware legal battle between Musk and Twitter recently allowed Musk to alter his counterclaim against the company to include allegations made by Zatko, who recently filed a whistleblower complaint claiming major security shortcomings at the platform.
Zatko told lawmakers on Tuesday that even after the Federal Trade Commission told Twitter to protect its users’ private information, the company did not do so, according to Fox Business.
“What I discovered when I joined Twitter was that this enormously influential company was over a decade behind industry security standards,” Zatko said. “The company’s cybersecurity failures make it vulnerable to exploitation, causing real harm to real people.”
He gave an example of what a rogue user could do with a user’s info stored by Twitter.
“This is the information that you need in order to...
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