Twitter had numerous wide-ranging security lapses, the former employee alleged. Former Twitter head of security, Peiter Zatko, alleged in a whistleblower federal complaint last month that the social ...

Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it had suspended a number of accounts that claimed to be owned by Black supporters of President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign, saying the accounts broke its ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation into Twitter's spam and fake account methodology in June, according to a new regulatory filing made public Wednesday. "We note ...

As the case between Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk heats up, more information is coming to the forefront. Amid Musk getting access to a former executive and new developments related to a ...

The legal team alleged that the presence of the former president’s name is connected to spam accounts, according to unsealed documents reviewed by Bloomberg. “Trump is relevant for the reasons we ...

Twitter has reiterated that spam accounts on its platform represent fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users, in response to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s letter in June seeking ...

Elon Musk has subpoenaed a Twitter whistleblower, seeking documents and communications on the company’s spam and alleged security vulnerabilities as the billionaire battles to end his agreement to buy ...

One of the creators of the Botometer—a web tool Elon Musk used to estimate Twitter's spam percentage for a court filing—has reportedly said that Musk's calculation "doesn't mean anything." Kai-Cheng ...

Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Twitter will “soon” implement daily limits on the number of direct ...

Elon Musk's lawyers want to question the Twitter employees responsible for calculating spam-account estimates, and they claim that Twitter is hiding these potential witnesses, Bloomberg reported ...

Spam and fake accounts are more prevalent on Twitter than on comparable social platforms, according to a data analysis firm hired by Elon Musk as part of his legal battle with Twitter. The claim by ...

Bots can tweet at people, share tweets, follow and be followed by other people. And there are good bots and bad. By Sheera Frenkel On Friday, the tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he was ...