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Musk's Twitter still has 'GodMode' that lets any engineer tweet from any account: whistleblower

Twitter logo is displayed on a smartphone with graphics world map on the background. (Credit: Omar Marques—SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

A new Twitter whistleblower has highlighted a serious ongoing security concern that the social media company claimed it fixed back in 2020. 

The former employee claims that current staff still have access to “GodMode,” an internal setting that allows engineers at the company to access and post from any Twitter account, in a warning to members of Congress and the Federal Trade Commission and reported by the Washington Post. 

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