Twitter Inc. executives should be held accountable for concealing operational problems at the popular social-media platform and firing a whistle-blower who sought to address the issues, according to an investor’s lawsuit.
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal and other managers violated federal securities laws by making false statements about the operational miscues to bolster the platform’s stock price, shareholder William Baker said in a federal suit filed Tuesday in California.
Baker alleges Agrawal and other Twitter executives “repeatedly discouraged” whistle-blower Peiter Zatko “from providing a full accounting of Twitter’s security problems to the company’s board of ...
