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Twitter employees freaked out and one even apparently vowed to quit over the company’s takeover by tech billionaire Elon Musk this week, according to internal Slack messages obtained by The New York Post.
The messages show woke workers inside the San Francisco-based social media company panicked and despondent over the prospect of Musk allowing what he considers free speech to take place on the platform,
“Vocal Twitter employees on internal chats indicate their biggest fear is Donald Trump being unbanned. Many express strong hatred toward [Elon Musk] & say they’re sick of hearing about ‘free speech,'” Andy Ngo said Monday, citing sources. “They’re concerned about their mental health. #ElonMuskBuyTwitter .”
From my sources: Vocal Twitter employees on internal chats indicate their biggest fear is Donald Trump being unbanned. Many express strong hatred toward @elonmusk & say they’re sick of hearing about “free speech.” They’re concerned about their mental health. #ElonMuskBuyTwitter
— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 25, 2022
The reporter on Wednesday published accounts of the freakout at the New York Post on Wednesday.
“Physically cringy watching Elon talk about free speech,” a reliability engineer at the site said, according to Ngo.
“We’re all going through the five stages of grief in cycles and everyone’s nerves are frazzled,” a senior staff software engineer posted to Slack, calling Musk an “a**hole.”
“We’re all spinning our wheels, and coming up with worst case scenarios (Trump returns! No more moderation!). The fact is that [Musk] has not talked about what he’s planning on doing in any detail outside of broad sweeping statements that could be easily seen as hyperbolic showboating,” the employee wrote.
“Not the place to say it perhaps, but I will not work for this company after the takeover,” a senior staff video engineer announced to his colleagues.
“Following the back-and-forth among multiple employees angry about the news, some warned that their communications on Slack could be searched,” Ngo reported. “The employees then moved their conversations onto their personal devices using the encrypted chat application Signal.”
Employees at a video meeting reportedly pressed Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal about the Tesla founder, video from Project Veritas revealed.
For example, one employee “asked for more clarity on what Musk may have meant by ‘free speech,'” Tech Crunch reported . “Agrawal said everyone understood what free speech meant, as it’s a concept that’s existed for a while,” according to the report.
“But I think I am going to try and read the question behind the question here, which is, where might Twitter’s product go as a private company in the future once the deal closes?” Agrawal responded, adding, “To best gain perspective on this … we’ll find ways to bring Elon in for a Q&A with all of you.”
The CEO told employees the company “will continue making decisions as we always have, guided by the principles we’ve had, which doesn’t mean things won’t change. Things have been changing. I’ve been in this role for four months. … Once the deal closes, different decisions might be made. For us to gain insight into that, we’ll be finding a way to have Elon talk with all of you at the soonest possible opportunity.”
Tech Crunch on Wednesday admitted the leaked video from Project Veritas “appears” to match prior reports about the call.
Reporter Yashar Ali on Monday said employees at a Twitter all-hands meeting worried about the Musk takeover, including one employee asking, “how did we go from poison pill to this so quickly?”
1. There's going to be an all hands meeting at Twitter in about 15 minutes and Twitter employees are submitting questions.
A source at Twitter is showing me some of the most common questions for this meeting…
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 25, 2022
3. Understandably lots of questions about what this sale will mean for employee stock options/grants.
Someone asks if any employee protection measures were negotiated as part of this deal.
Another person asks if this means there will be a hiring freeze until the deal closes.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 25, 2022
5. Another Twitter employee asks: “how did we go from poison pill to this so quickly?”
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 25, 2022

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Whistleblower accuses Twitter of being 'grossly negligent' towards security The former Twitter head of security also says Twitter prioritizes user growth over reducing spam.
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Whistleblower accuses Twitter of being 'grossly negligent' towards security
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, Twitter's former head of security, says the company has misled regulators about its security measures in his whistleblower complaint that was obtained by The Washington Post . In his complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, he accuses the company of violating the terms it had agreed to when it settled a privacy dispute with the FTC back in 2011. Twitter, he says, has "extreme, egregious deficiencies" when it comes to defending the website against attackers.
As part of that FTC settlement, Twitter had agreed to implement and monitor security safeguards to protect its users. However, Zatko says half of Twitter's servers are running out-of-date and vulnerable software and that thousands of employees still have wide-ranging internal access to core company software, which had previously led to huge breaches. If you'll recall, bad actors were able to commandeer the accounts of some of the most high-profile users on the website in 2020, including Barack Obama's and Elon Musk's, by targeting employees for their internal systems and tools using a social engineering attack.
It was after that incident that the company hired Zatko, who used to lead a program on detecting cyber espionage for DARPA, as head of security. He argues that security should be a bigger concern for the company, seeing as it has access to the email addresses and phone numbers of numerous public figures, including dissidents and activists whose lives may be in danger if they are doxxed.
"Twitter is grossly negligent in several areas of information security. If these problems are not corrected, regulators, media and users of the platform will be shocked when they inevitably learn about Twitter’s severe lack of security basics.
In addition, Zatko has accused Twitter of prioritizing user growth over reducing spam by distributing bonuses tied to increasing the number of daily users. The company isn't giving out any bonuses directly tied to reducing spam on the website, the complaint said. Zatko also claims that he could not get a direct answer from Twitter regarding the true number of bots on the platform. Twitter has only been counting the bots that can view and click on ads since 2019, and in its SEC reports since then, its bot estimates has always been less than 5 percent.
Zatko wanted to know the actual number of bots across the platform, not just the monetizable ones. He cites a source who allegedly said that Twitter was wary of determining the real number of bots on the website, because it "would harm the image and valuation of the company." Indeed his revelation could factor into Twitter's legal battle against Elon Musk after the executive started taking steps to back out of his $44 billion takeover . Musk accused Twitter of fraud for hiding the real number of fake accounts on the website and revealed that his analysts found a much higher bot count than Twitter claimed. As The Post notes, though, Zatko provided limited hard documentary evidence regarding spam and bots, so it remains unclear if it would help Musk's case.
When asked why he filed a whistleblower complaint — he's being represented by the nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid — Zatko replied that he "felt ethically bound" to do so as someone who works in cybersecurity . Twitter spokesperson Rebecca Hahn, however, denied that the company doesn't make security a priority. "Security and privacy have long been top companywide priorities at Twitter," she said, adding that Zatko's allegations are "riddled with inaccuracies." She also said that Twitter fired Zatko after 15 months "for poor performance and leadership" and that he now "appears to be opportunistically seeking to inflict harm on Twitter, its customers, and its shareholders."
Shortly after the Post published its initial report, Senate and Congressional committee leaders announced they were already investigating Zatko's claims . The offices of Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Durbin the committee's ranking member Chuck Grassley said they've already had discussions with Zatko. "The whistleblower’s allegations of widespread security failures at Twitter, willful misrepresentations by top executives to government agencies and penetration of the company by foreign intelligence raise serious concerns," Durbin wrote earlier today on Twitter .
Update: 8/23/22, 12:10PM ET: This story has been updated with the news that members of Congress have already begun investigating Zatko's claims about Twitter.
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