Some parts of Twitter’s latest scandal are appalling. Some are hazy. Here’s a breakdown.
Companies suffer embarrassing cybersecurity breaches, like the July 2020 Twitter hack, that they could—and should—have been able to prevent all the time. They rarely suffer more than a slap on the wrist for those breaches, but one way to encounter legitimately steep penalties—like theof Facebook in 2019 when the company violated its previous 2012 settlement with the agency—is to not do the things they specifically promised regulators they would do in the wake of those incidents.
with providing information to the Saudi government, it was—in perhaps the most explosive charge in the whistleblower complaint—allegedly agreeing to hire agents of the Indian government.
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