A Twitter engineer, asking for anonymity, in a video shot by Project Veritas revealed that the social network would read and archive everything that users write online, including deleted posts and direct messages, i.e. those that users exchange in private . The video published in recent days shows the engineer, an employee of the microblog, who in a bar talks about the existence of "a team of at least 300-400 people dedicated" to spying on the profiles and personal messages of users. Among the messages that Twitter employees would have access to are erotic ones. The microblog denied it. “We don't look into direct messages proactively. A limited number of employees have access to this information for legitimate purposes, and we apply strict access protocols for those employees, ”the company explained to Buzzfeed. Also in Buzzfeed, a former employee commented on the investigation stating that what was said in the video “is technically accurate but access to user messages, he added, is only allowed in response to a report, for example of abuse.
