Twitter Had Agreed To Pay The Whistleblower Rp103 Billion To Close Your Face

JAKARTA - Twitter Inc last June agreed to pay about 7 million US dollars (Rp 103 billion) to whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko whose allegations would be part of Elon Musk's case against the company. This was first reported by the Wall Street Journal reporting on Thursday, September 8 citing people familiar with the matter.

The whistleblower, Petiter "Mudge" Zatko, who was fired by Twitter in January, was previously the head of social media company's security. Zatko last August accused the social media company of incorrectly claiming that it had a solid security plan and made misleading statements about its defenses against hackers and spams. account.

Zatko will meet with the US Senate Judiciary committee on September 13 to discuss the allegations.

The settlement was completed a few days before Zatko filed a complaint with his reporter in July, according to a WSJ report.

As part of the settlement, Zatko agreed to a confidentiality agreement prohibiting him from publicly speaking about his tenure on Twitter or anything that underestimates the company.

The secret settlement last June was related to compensation for lost time for Zatko and followed mediation for months of more than tens of millions of dollars in potential payments he should have received.

However, it is not known for certain whether Twitter finally paid the compensation. If you look at Zatko's report, it is very likely that the money was not paid for so that the case exploded.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.

Musk himself was involved in a direct legal battle with Twitter over his offer to buy the company $44 billion after he changed course to drop the deal by saying that social media companies had misled him about the number of bots and fake accounts on the site.