Tesla CEO has said new revelations on bots at Twitter add to his argument to walk away from his $44bn purchase of the company
Elon Musk is asking a Delaware judge to let him amend his counterclaims against Twitter, after saying earlier that new whistle-blower revelations add to his argument to walk away from his $44bn purchase of the company.
While the billionaire’s request was filed in court on Tuesday under seal, one attachment detailed a report to Congress from former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko. In his whistle-blower complaint last week, Zatko said he raised concerns over the number of robot and spam accounts, but company officials ignored him.
Musk has been attempting for months to try to extract himself from the takeover of Twitter, initially claiming that the company’s user figures are inflated by millions of robot accounts. Twitter sued Musk in Delaware over the failed deal. Zatko’s claims, which emerged last week, have given Musk’s side new ammunition.
The company has maintained that spam and bots make up fewer than 5% of the social media network’s accounts. Musk claims as much as a third of Twitter’s more than 230-million users may fall into the bot category.
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