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To the report that just aired. it says there are more bots being reported. twitter is so much in the news, and its future, you know, on the line here. >> there will be a five-day trial in obctober. elon musk trying to get out of buying twitter in part because he says there are more automated accounts, spam accounts, than the company cops to. the company can sometimes be a little squishy and point out, no, some of these accounts are good. if you get a weather alert or you get an alert about vaccine availability in your neighborhood, those are bots, but things that are good and for the public go...

And had trained staff to protect themselves against hacking. >> if you're running any system, the more people that have access to the main switches, that's a very risky situation. >> yes, absolutely. i'm talking in generalities just large tech companies need to know what the risks are and then they also need to have an appetite to go fix it. >> reporter: zatko also claims twitter has been misleading about how many fake accounts and bots are on its platform. that's an issue that elon musk made central to his attempt to get out of a deal to buy the company. >> i guess right now i'm sort of debat...

Narrative about our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context. when we spoke to zatko and his lawyer, they said the lawful whistle-blower disclosure process only allows them to talk about the issues in general terms. for specific allegations they referred us to zatko's disclosure. >> i won't go into details. mudge stands by the disclosure and the allegations in there. >> reporter: cnn and "the washington post" obtained a copy of the disclosure from a senior democratic official on capitol hill. in it, zatko claims nearl...

And the information could move there faster, in an attack, than anyone would be able to respond to. >> look at the last administration, the white house said tweets were official white house statements, whatever trump said on there. i think that's when people look at the accounts that they accessed. part of this is not just in that sense, it is also for regular users, donie, and the reporting you have, they are not reliably deleting data when people cancel their accounts. >> that's a big part, particularly in europe, when it comes to laws about data. twitter is supposed to, you know, when they ...

Attacks of all time. you know, this is a warning from chuck yeager saying i'm worried about the danger of that plane. this is -- this is someone you have to listen to. now, when you get into what his actual allegations are, what, again, really stands out is how long twitter has been working on some of these internal controls, and they still fail. and, of course, mudge was brought on after this incredibly worrisome hack of some of the most prominent -- most prominent accounts on twitter. we're all really lucky that that attack was a cryptocurrency scam. and not a foreign intelligence service or...