Ex-Twitter engineer tells FTC security violations persist after Musk

Source: Washington Post

A new Twitter whistleblower has emerged, supporting last year’s surprising testimony about the dismal state of the company’s privacy protections and saying the company continues to violate its legal obligations under new owner Elon Musk.

The former employee has told members of Congress and staff at the Federal Trade Commission that any Twitter engineer can activate an internal program until recently called “GodMode” and tweet from any account today, three months after Musk’s takeover.

The allegation was also made in a complaint filed in October by the nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid with the FTC, which is continuing to interview former employees. A congressional staffer shared the complaint with The Washington Post.

The company’s current head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, did not respond to an email seeking comment on the new claims. Parag Agrawal, the chief executive for a year before Musk fired him in October, did not respond to a Twitter message seeking comment.

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