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National security and democracy. >> twitter is a critical resource to the entire world. i think it is an extremely important platform. >> reporter: he handed over information about the company to various u.s. law enforcement agencies, the fcc, the ftc and the department of justice. >> may i ask your name. >> mudge. >> reporter: zatko is better known in the hacking world by his nickname mudge. he's been a renowned cybersecurity expert for decades. >> his roots are in hacking, figuring out how computers and software work. >> reporter: that expertise might be why jack dorsey then ceo of twitter h...

Twitter's former security head claims company misled regulators about bot accounts

Peiter Zatko, Twitter's ex-top security official, revealed that Twitter's CEO asked him to lie to the company's board about security issues and manipulate data.

The Union government, facing ‘intense protests’, made the social media company put a person on its payroll, the former Twitter security chief claimed.

Twitter Inc misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company's former security chief Peiter Zatko said in a whistleblower complaint.