According to Zatko, prior to him being fired in January, reportedly due to poor work performance, he had warned Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal about major privacy and computer security risks related to the social media platform's operations that constituted violations of agreements the business had made with government regulators. One of the allegations was that too many of Twitter's employees have access to critical systems and users' sensitive personal data, while Zatko also alleged that Twitter repeatedly made "false and misleading statements" to users and the FTC, violating an agreement from its 2010 settlement with the FTC over a failure to protect consumers' personal information.