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Twitter takes legal action after source code leaked online

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Dissent

Dan Milmo reports:

Twitter has revealed some of its source code has been released online and the social media platform owned by Elon Musk is taking legal action to identify the leaker.

According to a court filing made on Friday, Twitter is demanding that GitHub, a code-sharing service, identifies who released on the platform parts of its source code – the underlying software on which the service operates.

Read more at TheGuardian.

According to the New York Times,  the person who leaked Twitter’s source code apparently called themself “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” on GitHub.

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