In August 2022, Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, filed an 84-page whistleblower complaint with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in which he claimed the company misled the public on issues like bots and spam, had low security standards, and withheld critical information about breaches from its board, allegations which Twitter denied. As a person who built their life by exposing flaws in software, Mudge claimed he was “ethically bound” to go public, because he felt Twitter neglected to correct these flaws, according to an interview with The Washington Post.
