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After the most uninteresting will-they-won’t-they tale, ELON MUSK has decided to purchase Twitter for $44 billion.
Musk made an effort to reassure advertisers that “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences,” the acquisition raises concerns about what the platform’s nearly 240 million active users can anticipate from it in the future.
Unfortunately, the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, the company’s general counsel, Sean Edgett, and the head of legal policy, trust, and safety at the company, Vijaya Gadde, all lost their jobs last Friday.
Musk also declared in May that he would support Trump’s return after being removed from the platform in the wake of the Capitol riots in January 2021.
On October 28, Musk stated in a post that “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”
Issues such as the confidentiality of Twitter direct messages, defence against unauthorised government data demands, and the general effectiveness of Twitter’s security measures will take centre stage in the upcoming weeks.
This is especially relevant in light of recent allegations made by Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a former Twitter chief security officer, who claimed that Twitter’s digital security defences were woefully deficient in an August whistleblower report.
“I don’t know what to do, especially when you take Mudge’s whistleblower complaint into consideration,” Whitney Merrill, a privacy and data protection lawyer and former Federal Trade Commission attorney, said. “I’m just not putting any sensitive data or data I’d like to stay confidential into DMs.”
While according to Jake Williams, director of cyber-threat intelligence at the security firm Scythe and a former National Security Agency hacker, “This is an emerging situation, but to the extent, DMs were ever considered safe from inspection by staff, the threat is greater with the extensively reported rumours of staff reductions.”
For now, it’s still a crucial reminder that the social media giant is still a publicly traded company. Musk would be liable if he or any of his appointees personally engaged in other unethical behaviour to obtain user data that are not within Twitter’s purview.
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