I think the tech billionaire's soap opera would be called "As Elon's World Turns" After months of Musk claiming that bots were the reason he wanted to buy the social media company, a new source of information may have come his way.
CNN and the Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Peiter Zatko, who was fired from the blue bird app in January, submitted a complaint about the company's security practices. Zatko spoke about a topic that Musk has been interested in for a long time, and that is the proliferation of fake news on social media.
In his complaint, Zatko said that the executives at the company don't care about finding out the actual amount of bots on their platform, which they have publicly stated is less than 5%. Even if they did want to figure it out, the former executive says that the social network doesn't have the resources to do so.
Zatko said that there was little or no personal incentive for the executives to measure the prevalence of the bots. He said that there was a lot of ignorantness among the executives.
According to Zatko, the public was misled about the company's spam systems, which made them out to be more sophisticated than they were. According to the whistle blower, the company was incentivized to detect and remove as much mail as possible.
Zatko said thatAgrawal's previous posts were misleading because they implied thatTwitter uses sophisticated systems to measure and block fake accounts. The reality is mostly outdated, unmonitored, simple script and understaffed.
CNN says that Zatko had a tense relationship with him.
Sources told the Post that there is an internal tally of bots that aren't given to Wall Street. At a meeting Zatko attended, a document with these numbers was shown to the board. The billionaire thinks that the value of the company he agreed to buy is affected by the number of fake accounts on the platform. There is no truth to the rumor that the bot numbers are incorrect.
The board did not disclose that to the public.
Musk's lawyers subpoenaed Zatko after the whistle blower claimed. According to an unnamed source, Musk's lawyers summoned Zatko and scheduled a deposition with him before the complaint was published.
Alex Spiro, a partner at the firm and one of the lawyers representing Musk, told Gizmodo that they had issued a subpoena for Mr. Zatko and found his exit and that of other key employees curious.
According to the Post, Zatko wasn't in charge of eliminating bots, but he was involved in some aspects of it.
In a statement published on its website, Whistleblower Aid said that Zatko would speak about his time on the social networking site if asked to do so. They did not reply to the request.
Musk was interested in Zatko's revelations. The image of Jiminy Cricket and the phrase "Give a Little Whistle" were posted on his account.
When asked about Zatko's claims regarding the number of bots on its platform as its purported inability to calculate the number, a spokesman for the company sent out a statement on the whistle blower. Our questions about Zatko's claims were not directly answered by it.
Mr. Zatko was fired from his job as a senior executive at the micro-blogging site for poor performance. A false narrative about our privacy and data security practices is what we have seen so far. The timing and allegations of Mr. Zatko appear to be designed to hurt the company and its customers.
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