Twitter's unending fight against spam accounts is now a problem for new owner Elon Musk, who pledged in April to defeat the bot scourge or 'die trying!'
of the platform, raised concerns about the type of content that will be allowed on the social media site under his control."The bigger picture in my mind is: How do we make Twitter a better place for everybody," said bot-counting expert Emilio Ferrara, who worked over the summer to investigate the problem for Musk.
The question now is what Musk will do with that information. Ferrara's presentation — some 350 pages of analysis and supporting documents — is locked up in confidential court filings, and he said he can't disclose his conclusions.had buyer's remorse Most legal experts didn't think Musk had much of a case. The court's head judge seemed likely to side with Twitter based on the specific terms and conditions of the April purchase agreement.
"We expect that access to the withheld data would reveal an even higher true spam rate," Davis said in a prepared statement.Musk has long been preoccupied with Twitter spambots promoting cryptocurrency schemes, in part because, as a celebrity user with more than 110 million followers, he sees a lot of them. Some scammers have opened accounts mimicking Musk's name and likeness to try to get people to think he's endorsing something.
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