Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Elon Musk, who initially said he wanted to “defeat the spam bots” after buying Twitter, later
raised alarms that the company might be significantly under-reporting the number of spam and fake accounts, although he had little apparent evidence beyond his own experience on the platform to support the claim. He has made the issue central to the legal fight over the $44 billion acquisition, even as
Twitter argues Musk is simply attempting to get out of a deal for which he now has buyer’s remorse amid a market downturn.