Whistleblower

Photo: STRF/STAR MAX/IPx (AP)An anonymous whistleblower tip sent to Facebook last year contains a slew of accusations mirroring many of those found in an ongoing federal lawsuit facing Meta and OnlyFans. The anonymous tip, according to a copy provided to Gizmodo, was submitted more than six months before the lawsuit began.The report, which makes allegations of bribery and deferential treatment toward OnlyFans content, was sent to Meta’s investigations team in Washington D.C. in August 2021 by a person claiming to work…

Elon Musk will be allowed to use the claims made by whistleblower Peiter Zatko (also known as Mudge) in the trial against Twitter for walking away from the $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3.5 lakh crore) takeover deal. However, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of Delaware's Court of Chancery reportedly confirmed that the trial will begin in October and will not be delayed. Musk's legal team had reportedly argued to delay the five-day trial, so it could investigate the claims made by Zatko.According to Reuters, Musk will be able to…

In this photo illustration, the social media platform, Truth Social logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a photo of former US President Donald Trump displayed in the background.Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump's media company fired an executive Thursday after he shared internal documents from a Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower complaint with The Washington Post and spoke with the newspaper, the news outlet reported Saturday.Will Wilkerson was a senior vice…

The Twitter v. Musk lawsuit may be on hold for now, but information about the stayed case continues to emerge. In the latest revelation, the billionaire’s legal team accused the social media company of making its former executive (and current whistleblower) Peiter “Mudge” Zatko destroy documentation of his time at Twitter, including evidence of the company’s security faults.Getting rid of the documents was allegedly a condition of the $7.8 million severance package that Zatko received in June. He spent about a year as the…

The Delaware Court of Chancery says Twitter can proceed with a limited probe to figure out whether whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko contacted billionaire Elon Musk’s lawyers before he backed out of the deal. The decision was released shortly before Musk reportedly asked to close the deal on its original terms.Musk and Twitter contested how much information Twitter could seek about Zatko, who has alleged that Twitter concealed important information about its bot problem before Musk proposed acquiring it. Zatko revealed…

Former Twitter security chief testified before US senators that the company’s leadership put “earnings over security” and neglected to address critical flaws. Pieter “Mudge” Zatko made a variety of allegations during his testimony before a US Senate judiciary committee on 13 September. He said that the corporation needs to change its security procedures to defend its customers and “democracy.” Twitter hired Zatko in 2020 but sacked him earlier this year on the grounds of poor…

Photo: Rosdiana Ciaravolo (Getty Images)Storied NSA whistleblower turned cybersecurity activist has a new credential to add to his name: Russian citizen.On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin granted the 39-year-old American whistleblower citizenship nearly 10 years after he blew the lid off the National Security Agency’svast domestic and international spying apparatus according to Reuters. Those revelations set off an international manhunt for the former intelligence contractor which eventually landed him in Russia…

Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen reacts during an interview with Reuters ahead of a meeting with German Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, in Berlin, Germany, November 3, 2021.Michele Tantussi | ReutersFormer Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen on Thursday announced a new nonprofit with the goal of making social media healthier.The new group appears to build on the solutions she's proposed to lawmakers and social media companies themselves about how to make platforms safer, based in part on her…

Facebook (NASDAQ: META ) whistleblower Frances Haugen announced on Thursday that she is creating a non-profit organization that will seek solutions to the harm created by social media. The former product manager at Facebook, now called Meta Platforms, made headlines last year after coming to light as the source of thousands of leaked internal documents she said detailed the company’s failures to protect users. teens on Instagram and take action against vaccine misinformation. Facebook…

Whistleblower Frances Haugen - a former Facebook engineer who leaked documents suggesting the firm put profits before safety - on Thursday launched an organisation devoted to fighting harm caused by social media.The new Beyond the Screen nonprofit said that its first project will be to document ways big tech is failing in its "legal and ethical obligations to society" and help come up with ways to solve those problems."We can have social media that brings out the best in us, and that's what Beyond the Screen is working…