> FOREIGN THREATS: Twitter is exceptionally vulnerable to foreign government exploitation in ways that undermine US national security, and the company may even have foreign spies currently on its payroll, the disclosure alleges.
This is a very strange article to me. When I think of Twitter and government influence, I think of the overwhelming pro-Washington bias.
I think of the "state-affiliated media" tags that somehow don't apply to RFE/RL and BBC.
I think of the countless heterodox/dissident accounts that have been banned or silenced on the platform.
I think of the "hacked materials" warning label that was invented to discredit a particularly damning story about a covert disinformation campaign involving Reuters and BBC.
I think of Twitter's complete tolerance of the obvious platform abuse by the textbook troll farm known as "NAFO".
I think of the revolving door between the federal government and policy/compliance positions at large tech companies including Twitter, of which Mudge is one of many.
My tinfoil hat is whispering that this story is part of a broader campaign to put pressure on Twitter to be even more compromised by the federal government and intelligence agencies. I just don't see how this "foreign threat" narrative lines up with the reality of how effectively managed Twitter has become over the past few years.
Realistically though, Mudge probably just has a huge hacker ego and is butthurt that he was caught slackin'.