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How is the SEC responsible for fraud committed on Twitter?

By using Twitter as a communications channel for official announcements, they are at least legitimizing it.

If they have any reason to be concerned about the security of their account (and it looks like they should have at least from now on), they should arguably reconsider their choice of platform.

Do they make official announcements on Twitter? They have an account but what do they use it for?

Because it's their account?

Fraud is the fault of the one being impersonated now?

For people who are victims of identity theft, of course not, but for organizations or governments? Yes, clearly yes. Let's make sure that the burden of securing operations generally stays with, you know, the folks that have staff and budgets.

Isn’t that Twitter in this case?

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