Elon Musk and Facebook's former security officer got into it on Twitter over the release of the 'Twitter Files Part 2'
Twitter's deputy general counsel James Baker,"in light of concerns about Baker's possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue," in reference to the first release of the"Twitter Files."Vijaya Gadde, who was behind the social media platform's decision to ban former president Donald Trump after the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.
"Hopefully that button doesn't actually work for them; Twitter has put a lot of work into internal access controls,"about Weiss's photos."If those two have been provisioned DM access, I expect that's, at a minimum, an FTC reportable security incident." Weiss also shared photos of computer screens showing the internal-company view of conservative accounts like Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk, who she claims were targeted by Twitter's blacklisting and"shadow banning" — the practice of limiting a tweet's visibility.to senior IT and cybersecurity reporter Tom McKay that the screenshots were hers.
"For security purposes, the screenshots requested came from me so we could ensure no PII was exposed," Irwin tweeted."We did not give this access to reporters and no, reporters were not accessing user DMs." Musk responded that Weiss's thread"clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left." Stamos replied that Musk should"provide the transparency necessary for external groups to verify that statement."
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