Twitter's Parag Agrawal, before he was CEO, suggested bowing to Russia's demands for increased censorship and surveillance to grow users there, ex-security chief alleges

According to The Washington Post, a complaint was filed by the former security chief of the company.

The CEO of the company once suggested to the ex-security chief that the company bow to Russia's demands in order to grow its user base in the nation.

He was the chief technical officer at the time.

Although Mr. Agrawal's suggestion was never pursued or implemented, the fact that the current CEO of the company suggested that they become involved with the Putin regime is cause for concern. Mr. Zatko's message was a departure from what Mr. Dorsey had said.

The interaction was not possible because Zatko at the time was instructing teams to prepare for Russian attacks.

Insider asked for comment on the suggestion, but didn't get a response.

Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians have been killed in an attack by Russia that began in February.

In March, a number of Russia-backed media outlets posted false claims that the Ukrainian military launched attacks on Russian troops.

Facebook began fact-checking and labeling content from the outlets, and its parent company, Meta, Tiktok, andYouTube started blocking them for European users.

Russia restricted access to the social networking site after military officials invaded Ukraine. There is a ban on Facebook.