By The Financial District
Mar 31, 20231 min
Some parts of Twitter’s source code — the basic computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, Twitter said in a legal filing first reported by the New York Times, Anne D’Innocenzio wrote for the Associated Press (AP).
Photo Insert: GitHub has since complied and said the content had been disabled.
According to the document, first filed with the US District Court of the Northern District of California on Friday, Twitter had asked GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, to take down the code where it was posted.
The platform complied and said the content had been disabled, according to the filing.
Twitter, based in San Francisco, noted in the filing that the postings infringe on copyrights held by Twitter. The company also asked the court to identify the alleged individual or group that posted the information without Twitter’s authorization.
It’s seeking names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social media profile data, and IP addresses associated with the account “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” which is behind the leak.
The name is an apparent reference to Twitter’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, who described himself as a free speech absolutist.