Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal accused of lying by former Twitter security head

Former Twitter security head Peiter Zatko has accused the microblogging platform of having “extreme, egregious deficiencies” against hacking and doing little to ward off spam, as per a report by The Washington Post. He also reportedly accused CEO Parag Agrawal of lying when he said that Twitter was “strongly incentivised” to detect and remove spam.
In a formal complaint filed with the FTC, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Department of Justice (DOJ), Zatko accused the company of deceiving the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), after having made promises in 2011 when Twitter was hacked.
The former Twitter security head went on to add that the company did not allocate any bonuses for spam, while executives could earn as much as $10 million in bonuses for increasing daily active users with no care whether they were spambots or not.

“The complaint from former head of security Peiter Zatko, a widely admired hacker known as “Mudge,” depicts Twitter as a chaotic and rudderless company beset by infighting, unable to properly protect its 238 million daily users including government agencies, heads of state and other influential public figures”, said the report by the Washington Post.
“Among the most serious accusations in the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is that Twitter violated the terms of an 11-year-old settlement with the Federal Trade Commission by falsely claiming that it had a solid security plan. Zatko’s complaint alleges he had warned colleagues that half the company’s servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software and that executives withheld dire facts about the number of breaches and lack of protection for user data, instead presenting directors with rosy charts measuring unimportant changes”, added the report.
Twitter denied the allegations and now Elon Musk’s lawyers have issued a subpoena for Zatko, as per a report by 9To5Mac.