Twitter Tailspins After Privacy and Security Executives Bolt, Fake Verified Accounts Soar

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In what appears to be an accelerating death spiral for Twitter, several crucial top executives at the company responsible for the privacy and security features of the site quit as fake verified accounts ran rampant to the dismay of advertisers, attracting investigatory interest by the Federal Trade Commission and a possible probe by the Biden administration into Saudi Arabia’s investment in the ailing platform.

First, Twitter’s head of moderation and safety, Yoel Roth, quit following the resignation of Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner, the company’s chief privacy officer, and its chief compliance officer. Several other members of the site’s privacy and security unit also had resigned, including chief privacy officer Damien Kieran, and chief compliance officer, Marianne Fogarty. Those left behind struggle to stop a tsunami of abuse in the company’s expanded paid …