![]() ![]() Twitter’s track record when it comes to security already isn’t great, and Musk might be laying off employees who are essential to maintaining the protections it has that actually work (Musk has reportedly said he doesn’t plan to lay off that many people or that soon).Īnother helpful tidbit about free speech concerns and disinformation on Twitter under Musk’s rule from the Guardian’s Dan Milmo and Alex Hern: Twitter users should perhaps be concerned not about their data leaking to Musk but about their data leaking to everyone. ![]() And that would certainly be a disaster for a company Musk paid a lot of money for.īut even if Musk eventually does get his hands on the DMs of people he doesn’t like or wants to keep tabs on, the article argues that this isn’t the biggest security concern: It’s hard to imagine Musk making such a request and that request not somehow being leaked to the press. Musk would have to work with Twitter employees to get that data, and they might not be willing to help him read someone’s DMs. There are also whatever internal controls Twitter has - including those it’s supposed to have implemented per consent orders with agencies like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - that might get in Musk’s way. As for the board, based on the preliminary proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk plans to install his own board immediately. The new CEO, Bloomberg says, is Musk himself. He reportedly fired several of Twitter’s top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and Vijaya Gadde, who was the head of legal, public policy, and trust and safety. It shouldn’t be too difficult to get them to agree to Musk’s demands, though. To do that, he’d have to go through the board of directors. Twitter’s management team would first have to be amenable to fulfilling Musk’s requests. Now, is Musk going to waltz into Twitter’s headquarters on his first full day (maybe holding a sink again), fire up his computer, and immediately set about reading all of your DMs, peering in on private accounts’ tweets, and harvesting users’ phone numbers? Probably not, and whether that happens at all depends on several factors, according to Andy Wu, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Vox had a good story on what happens to your DMs, and whether they’re safe from Musk: Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, does that mean he can access anyone’s Twitter data? Hi, it’s Maanvi Singh, taking over the blog from my colleague Gloria Oladipo.
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