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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
@BjornIvarsson This is not specific to Twitter, but in general legal experts say European regulators tend to be more proactive and willing to impose preemptive or proscriptive regulations whereas US regulators tend to rely on case-by-case enforcement, and only on what can be proven in court. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Relevant to what Zatko and lawmakers were saying today about enforcement agencies’ ability to hold platforms accountable: — PolitiTweet.org
Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen @leah_nylen
FTC’s Rebecca Kelly Slaughter notes that the agency’s entire annual budget is equal to two days of profit for Meta… https://t.co/8FZLiLh478
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Sen. Hawley tells me he thinks Zatko’s testimony was “really significant” and that there’s no reason to believe Twitter has meaningfully addressed the USG tip about a suspected Chinese agent on Twitter’s payroll: https://t.co/yT2dz5506H — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Gonna delete the earlier tweet on this as Zatko's attorney John Tye now says Zatko MISSPOKE in this exchange and will be correcting the record with the committee. Twitter allegedly leaked data on THOUSANDS, not millions of current and former employees. https://t.co/moXGKGIu9n https://t.co/qOMZ4bmTi4 — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
RT @donie: #BREAK Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover deal https://t.co/VwLis2WpXR — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
50 million seems like such a large number as to be kind of incredible. I've asked Zatko's attorneys whether he stands by the claim. In the meantime, I went back to Zatko's exchange with Sen. Ossoff and here is exactly what Zatko said: https://t.co/Lj72UdZHvX — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Whoa. Twitter has accidentally leaked huge swaths of data on its own employees, including former employees and contractors, affecting as many as 50 MILLION people, Zatko alleges. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Here is all the data Zatko says Twitter collects on its users: https://t.co/ssdDMkbeOX — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
@emptywheel @ericgeller Actually, IIRC Grassley referred to Mudge as Mudge in his prepared opening remarks. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
@emptywheel @ericgeller Hmm, not sure, sorry! — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Twitter didn't fear US regulators, Zatko says. Twitter was "terrified" of French regulators because of the potential for far-reaching long-term penalties, but not the FTC because Twitter thought nothing of one-time fines. "One-time fines are priced in." https://t.co/9E92WMnthp — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
RT @claresduffy: "They lacked the fundamental ability to hunt for foreign agents and expel them on their own," Twitter whistleblower said o… — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
One of the interesting things about this hearing is how the lawmakers have widely gone after US regulators like the FTC for a failure to hold Twitter accountable. So far Grassley, Durbin and now Blumenthal have criticized US law enforcement on this front. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
WOW. Zatko says he remembers telling someone inside Twitter that there is a foreign agent at the company and was told "Well, since we already have one, what is the problem if we have more?" — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Senators in the room at the top of Zatko's testimony: Lee, Cornyn, Grassley, Durbin, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Blumenthal, Kennedy, Cotton, Hirono. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Twitter's CEO rejected an invitation to testify, Grassley said (which we first reported here): https://t.co/5AFzXfBaVv And Grassley adds he can't see how Twitter's CEO Parag Agrawal can stay in his position if Zatko's allegations are proven true. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
The publicly reported version of Zatko's disclosure only mentioned the existence of a USG tip pertaining to a suspected spy, but did not mention WHICH country the suspected spy was believed to be affiliated with. Now we know, from Grassley's opening statement, it is China. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
NEW: The US government's tip to Twitter about a possible spy on its payroll was about a suspected Chinese agent, Sen. Grassley says. More here: https://t.co/MAhIfoJGpZ — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
The Twitter whistleblower hearing is now getting underway. Follow live updates here: https://t.co/X7dtHye9bu https://t.co/UPI0AoG3Gf — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
And here we are: https://t.co/NK4JJnU5UB — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Good morning from Capitol Hill, where Twitter whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko is set to testify before US lawmakers on his damning allegations against his former employer. Things kick off at 10 ET, but our liveblog is already up and running: https://t.co/X7dtHye9bu https://t.co/xj2EMRoScC — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
More here: https://t.co/5AFzXfBaVv — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
NEW: Senate Judiciary sent a dozen-plus questions to Twitter today based on the company whistleblower's allegations, along with an invitation to CEO Parag Agrawal to testify alongside him. A committee aide says the witness list is unchanged and Zatko remains the sole witness. https://t.co/3pwG0moP4H — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Senate Judiciary’s hearing with Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko kicks off at 1000 ET right here: https://t.co/8SLMPXJx7b — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Remember: Tune in tomorrow to the Twitter whistleblower’s Hill hearing! I’ll be in the room; @donie will be just outside for TV and @claresduffy and I will be live-blogging on https://t.co/EyBAv0HjEa. The next day, current and former Twitter officials testify at Senate HSGAC. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
The memo also bars engineers from making non-critical updates to the Twitter product until the Sacramento data center is restored, reflecting another of the whistleblower's claims: Excessive access makes it far too easy for employees to knock Twitter offline, even accidentally. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
This is a big development, and appears to be exactly the sort of risk that the Twitter whistleblower has talked about. The whistleblower had warned that Twitter's lack of data center resilience could lead to Twitter being taken offline temporarily or even *for good* — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
RT @snlyngaas: Scoop from @donie, @b_fung & me: Extreme heat in California knocked out a key Twitter data center. "If we lose one of those… — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
NEW: Twitter was forced to shut down its entire Sacramento data center due to extreme heat, and warned internally that if another data center goes down it could result in Twitter outages for some users, because Twitter is now in a "non-redundant state": https://t.co/gzOdmh9YiU — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
RT @donie: FIRST ON CNN: Twitter lost a data center in Sacramento last week due to extreme heat. A company exec warns another outage else… — PolitiTweet.org
