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Comment: Twitter's pitched regulatory battle with US FTC revealed in deposition by auditor

By Mike Swift ( July 21, 2023, 19:57 GMT | Comment) -- A thicket of documents made public by Twitter in a recent court filing, including a 220-page deposition of Ernst & Young partner David Roque, reveals the regulatory confrontation between the social media company headed by Elon Musk and the US Federal Trade Commission under Chair Lina Khan. Roque’s testimony illuminates both the chaos within Twitter after Musk bought the San Francisco-based company and the pressure the FTC put on Ernst & Young to corroborate evidence the regulator said it had about Twitter’s privacy and data security failures.A money-bleeding social media company newly acquired by mercurial billionaire Elon Musk, where the leadership structure was collapsing as senior leadership quit or was fired. An aggressive regulator with evidence of improper conduct bent on confirming that conduct through an independent audit....

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