Ban Twitter over security fears

[mrswdk]

This morning the question facing national security committees in countries all over the world i: should an American social media company with lax security arrangements that allow private details and money of citizens to be passed into the hands of criminals, be allowed to endanger the livelihoods of citizens by operating within their borders?

Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam.

The official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West also requested donations in the cryptocurrency.

In the short time it was online, the link displayed in the tweets of targeted accounts received hundreds of contributions totalling more than $100,000 (£80,000), according to publicly available blockchain records.

A spokesman for Bill Gates told AP news agency: "This appears to be part of a larger issue that Twitter is facing."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53425822

Twitter's CEO has also communicated directly with the US President multiple times, raising fears about the extent to which the USG has control over its national crown jewel.