Media
‘Egregious deficiencies’ at Twitter unearthed by whistleblower claims
In a bombshell accusation, Twitter’s former head of cybersecurity “has accused the company of a number of egregious security flaws and oversights” reports NBC News. The information is according to a whistleblower complaint filed with the U.S. government this year.
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a veteran cybersecurity expert widely respected in the industry, filed the complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice in July. Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit that provides legal assistance to whistleblowers, confirmed the complaint’s authenticity, the NBC report adds.
In January, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fired Zatko and another top security official in a shakeup of that department.
NBC News reports:
The complaint, first published by The Washington Post and CNN, makes a wide range of damning claims about Twitter, including that members of the company’s board of directors misled the public and government agencies about the company’s security. The former security chief alleged in the complaint that he was told to withhold a major security report from Twitter’s board and to write misleading security documents.
In response to the whistleblower complaint, a Twitter spokesperson called Zatko’s account “a false narrative” and said Zatko was fired because he displayed “ineffective leadership and poor performance.” It also said his allegations about Twitter’s security was “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context.”
Elections
Report: Google has ‘interfered’ in U.S. elections ‘dozens of times since 2008’
The Media Research center released a report, published Monday by Fox News Digital, which demonstrates that Google has “interfered” in U.S. elections dozens of times since 2008. Specifically, “researchers at the center identified 41 times over the past 16 years where Google interfered in elections, a claim which the tech platform has strongly denied” reports Just the News.
“In every case, Google harmed the candidates–regardless of party–who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice,” the report states. One example is in 2008, Google “allied itself” with then-candidate Barack Obama and censored bloggers supporting then-candidate Hillary Clinton, per the report.
In 2012, Google’s algorithm negatively impacting Senator Rick Santorum, the leading GOP primary candidate, according to the researchers. Google’s interference also extended to “every federal election cycle since 2016, and it’s already impacting the 2024 election”, the report states.
Researchers recommended House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to direct committees to investigate the platform and for Americans to “stop using Google products, particularly Google Search and instead opt for one of the many alternatives.”
Just the News notes Google has denied the report’s findings: “There is absolutely nothing new here – just a recycled list of baseless, inaccurate complaints that have been debunked by third parties and many that failed in the courts,” a spokesperson for the company said. “We have a clear business incentive to keep everyone using our products, so we have no desire to make them biased or inaccurate and have safeguards in place to ensure this.”
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