Twitter's ex-security chief says company lied about security, bots: Report

Twitter executives don't have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to, says Peiter Zatko

Twitter Inc misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company's former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint.
 

In an 84-page complaint, Zatko, a famed hacker more widely known as "Mudge," alleged Twitter falsely claimed it had a solid security plan and said he had warned colleagues that half the company's servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software, according to documents relayed by congressional investigators.
 

The whistleblower filing comes as the social media company is embroiled in a legal battle with Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk after the world's richest