Federal regulators plan to depose Twitter boss Elon Musk as part of an ongoing probe into the company’s data and privacy practices, sources say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Federal Trade Commission has demanded Twitter hand over communications about controversial moves under Musk\u2019s leadership, including the recent mass layoffs.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The agency also seeks data on \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d which are a series of internal documents Musk sent to journalists<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Elon Musk apologizes after mocking disabled Twitter employee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n More details about the probe come from a report released by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, March 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It sheds light on the FTC’s response to Musk’s takeover of Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Musk responded to the probe by tweeting: \u201cA shameful case of weaponization of a government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twitter and the FTC both declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the three months following Musk’s takeover, the FTC sent over a dozen letters to Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The House Judiciary Committee argues in its report the outreach<\/a><\/strong> shows that the agency has been \u201cattempting to harass\u201d the firm.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twitter is now subject to an FTC consent decree, which means the agency monitors the company’s privacy<\/a><\/strong> policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several layoffs under Musk have targeted staff responsible for the social media platform’s privacy and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>Fortune<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The agency also seeks data on \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d which are a series of internal documents Musk sent to journalists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065],"tags":[686,1164,977,329],"class_list":["post-38207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-ftc","tag-layoffs","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}