Elon Musk’s Twitter to subpoena Elizabeth Warren over communications with FTC, SEC

Twitter, which has requested a courtroom to terminate a consent order struck final 12 months with the Federal Commerce Fee associated to data breaches, stated in a courtroom submitting on Thursday that it deliberate to subpoena Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in reference to the combat.

After billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter final 12 months, the corporate laid off thousands of employees and drastically cut costs, prompting questions on whether or not it had the assets to adjust to the FTC consent order.

Twitter requested final week for the consent order to be scrapped, accusing the FTC of bias and overreach in filings in federal courtroom in San Francisco.

Warren was one in all a number of Democratic senators who had urged the agency to investigate Twitter’s privacy policies within the wake of the layoffs and to think about enforcement actions in opposition to executives if applicable.

The courtroom submitting on Thursday stated the subpoena to Warren requested communications relating to Twitter or its proprietor Elon Musk between her workplace and the FTC, in addition to her workplace and the Securities and Change Fee.

Warren’s workplace and the SEC didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The FTC declined remark. Twitter responded to a request for remark by sending a poop emoji, as is its commonplace observe.

In 2011, Twitter and the FTC reached the consent decree after two information breaches on the social media firm, with Twitter agreeing on the time it could not mislead customers about privateness protections.

Final 12 months, Twitter agreed to pay $150 million in a settlement with the FTC and the Justice Division to resolve allegations that it misused personal consumer info as a way to goal promoting.