Twitter had a Chinese spy on its payroll  

The FBI had warned Twitter

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko’s testimony before a congressional inquiry reveals how the company’s lax security practices threatened US national security. Among other things, Twitter is accused of having a Chinese spy on its payroll.

Senator Chuck Grassley pointed out that ” the FBI had notified Twitter of at least one Chinese agent at the company, ” and Zatko said the FBI had warned him that the company employed one or more people working for a specific foreign intelligence agency.

This came to my attention about a week before I was summarily dismissed.

Zatko was also concerned about the presence of agents from other countries, including India, concerns that he said forced Twitter to hire government agents. According to him, the risk from foreign agents is particularly high because of the huge amounts of data collected by the platform and because of the lack of security in this data, as access to it is unhindered for all Twitter engineers.

It is no exaggeration to say that an employee within the company could gain control of the accounts of all the Senators in this chamber.

The CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, was also called to the hearing, but he ” refused to appear “.

He declined the committee’s invitation, arguing that it would jeopardize Twitter’s legal battle with Elon Musk. Protecting Americans from foreign powers is more important than the Twitter litigation. If these allegations are true, I don’t see how Mr. Agrawal can retain his position. – Senator Chuck Grassley