A whistleblower within Twitter has come forward to reveal damning details about the company that America's national security at risk.

The whistleblower, a former exec at the company, claims that Twitter is overrun by millions of bots that are engaged in "social conditioning" and that officials are turning a blind eye to the problem and have no real idea how many bots are active on the network.

Twitter's board has been covering up its 'extreme, egregious deficiencies' that make it a huge risk to national security and democracy, the whistleblower Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko has claimed.