Employees prevented Musk from breaking federal Twitter order, FTC finds

After a divisive investigation into the “Twitter Files” that Republicans decried as “harassment,” the Federal Trade Commission has found no evidence that the social network violated the terms of a government order that placed sweeping restrictions on the company’s data security practices. “Longtime information security employees at Twitter intervened and implemented safeguards to mitigate the risks,” the FTC said. “The FTC’s investigation confirmed that staff was right to be concerned, given that Twitter’s new CEO had directed employees to take actions that would have violated the FTC’s Order.” The conclusion is likely to prove unsatisfying to Musk’s critics, who viewed the FTC order as one of the few checks that the federal government had on his leadership of the social network, since renamed X.