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Reports say that former coworkers of Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, who blew the whistle on Twitter for allegedly lax enforcement of data privacy rules, have been offered money in exchange for damaging information about him. Zatko used to be in charge of Twitter's cybersecurity, and he was the one who blew the whistle.

On Sept. 13, the Senate Judiciary Committee will meet with Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, who used to be Twitter's head of security, to talk about his whistleblower complaint, which says that the social media company lied to regulators.

Experts told The Post that the bombshell claims made by Twitter's former head of cybersecurity, who said the company was careless with user data and lied to the government about it, could give regulators a chance to crack down on large tech firms.