Parts of the source code that underpins Elon Musk’s social media platform Twitter, the world’s richest man, have been made public online, JEE News reported on Monday, revealing information about the person behind it. are getting
The code was made public on GitHub, a Microsoft-based service where software developers commonly share code.
The code has been removed at Twitter’s request.
Elon Musk has also said separately that his company isn’t worth what it was when he bought it — less than half of the $44 billion it was worth. He indicated that his company was worth $20 billion.
A Github spokesperson told JEE News that “Github does not normally comment on content removal decisions. However, in the interest of transparency, we make every DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] takedown request public.” Share as.”
The DMCA is a law signed in 1998 in the United States that protects copyrighted material online.
Twitter also asked GitHub to share information on account holder FreeSpeechEnthusiast – responsible for the leak.
According to a March 24 legal filing by the California-based social media platform, it asked the District Court for the Northern District of California to order Github to produce “all identifying information” associated with the person behind the leak.
Twitter noted that it violated the company’s copyrights.
This has become a new challenge for billionaire Elon Musk, who fired half of his staff and has also seen the return of advertisers.
Twitter CEO and Tesla Musk was quoted as saying: “I see a clear, but difficult path to a valuation of >$250B,” suggesting a more than tenfold increase in Twitter’s value.
