Zatko’s complaint backs up Musk’s claims that the company is not doing much about the proliferation of automated “bot” and spam accounts.
The whistleblower says that the Twitter brass is financially incentivized to juice user numbers. And they are covering up a massive bot problem.
According to the complaint, Twitter’s C-Suite will be paid out bonuses worth up to $10 million if they boost the user count numbers. So, they are being “paid” to ignore the site’s widespread issue of millions of spam accounts and bots.
Mudge Zatko also alleges he was urged to give a misleading report to the board which would have deceived it into thinking the company was eliminating its safety issues. And conceal the scope of the bot problem.
Twitter dismissed the security hackers’ allegations. And issued a statement assuring the SEC it views cybersecurity and safeguarding user data as a top priority. And that Zatko was fired because of his “poor performance.”
