The reliable source to which refers The American edition of The Washington Post claims that Twitter engineers can use the “Godmode” function and post messages from any account. The company may face a huge fine if the charges are confirmed.
After the hacking of 2020, as a result of which A group of adolescents left fraudulent messages from the accounts of famous personalities, Twitter publicly stated that the problems were eliminated. “However, the existence of Godmode is another example of the fact that Twitter public statements for users and investors were false and / or misleading,” the article published by The Washington Post.
The informant, who is a former Twitter employee, spoke both with members of the US Congress and with employees of the Federal Trade Commission (FTK). He stated that any Twitter engineer can still activate the “God of God” and make posts from any account.
The former employee also said that representatives of the company’s management are well aware of everything, but publicly declare that the problem has been corrected. However, in fact, the function was simply renamed the “privileged regime” and is still under the jurisdiction of engineers. The company simply withdrew access to the default tool, but engineers can still activate it by changing one line of code from FALSE to True.
The Washington Post report that “some people who regularly contacted FTK suggest that the agency can finish the company for $ 1 billion or more,” if it comes to the conclusion that Twitter constantly violated the rules of FTK.
This report is by no means the first evidence of the depthness of the confidentiality of Twitter. Back in November 2022, another former employee, Steve Krenzel, said that one of the major telecommunication providers in 2015-2016 asked him to track digital movements of users. Former Executive Director Jack Dorsy then rejected this request, however, judging by the reports of the Twitter lawyers team, this request did not violate user service conditions.
Recall that this year Twitter has already got it. In early January, cybercriminals publicly opened 63 GB of data, draining the network of 235 million users of the platform.
Will Ilon Musk manage to restore order in the company or will we find another loud scandal in the near future?