Tom CoatesA particularly catastrophic day at Twitter. The people reassuring advertisers yesterday that everything was fine quit, along with the heads of trust and safety, ad sales and most importantly the three people who were responsible for filing a document to the FTC detailing their protections in place for user data. Those three were the heads of information security, compliance and privacy. When they leave like that you know it’s bad. Law-breaking, privacy violating, insecure bad.
Jeffrey Goldberg@tomcoates My speculation (I have no inside knowledge) is that Musk sought to deliberately provoke the FTC into acting so he could pretend to be the victim of government persecution. Naturally, the Compliance, Security, and Privacy leads would have none of that and walked.
@jpgoldberg it’s an interesting theory certainly. I’m not 100% convinced. Seems more likely that he just doesn’t care about laws because he’s a billionaire and nothing he does has consequences
@tomcoates Well, we now know that he has since sent email to all (remaining) Twitter employees absolutely denying any rumors that he wasn't going to comply with the FTC consent order.
So even if those "rumors" were completely false, it now appears that some people inside Twitter were worried about deliberate non-compliance.