Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has drawn the attention of the U.S. government because of potential national security risks.
Elon Musk's short time as Twitter's CEO has been contentious — from the backlash of content moderation experts for cutting Twitter's staff days ahead of the midterms, to suggesting he'd allow anyone to pay a monthly fee to have their account verified.
"Elon Musk has a history of cozying up to foreign dictators," said Nicole Gill, co-founder and executive director of Accountable Tech."When his proposed takeover was announced in April, the Saudi prince, who is now an investor in the deal, was publicly critical of him. And supposedly a conversation between Elon and this Saudi prince happened. And now he is not only in favor of the deal, but now owns a piece of Twitter.
The U.S.'s anxieties aren't unfounded. In August, a former Twitter manager was convicted of accepting payments from Saudi Arabia to turn over confidential user data. In September, former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko told Congress that there was at least one Chinese agent on Twitter's payroll. "Twitter has access to your private messages, and now Twitter is owned by some of the most repressive regimes in the world," Gill said.
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