Packet Storm Elon Subpoenas Twitter Whistleblower To Testify About Counting Bots August 24, 2022 TH Author headline,botnet,fraud,twitter Elon Musk Subpoenas Twitter’s Peiter Zatko About Spam Bots When asked about Zatko’s claims regarding Twitter’s apathy for the number of bots on its platform as its purported inability to calculate the number, a Twitter spokesperson sent out the company’s boilerplate statement on the whistleblower. It did not directly answer our questions about Zatko’s bot claims. Advertisement “Mr. Zatko was fired from his senior executive role at Twitter in January 2022 for ineffective leadership and poor performance. What we’ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context,” a Twitter spokesperson said. “Mr. Zatko’s allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.” READ MORE HERE
