Elon Musk said his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter “cannot move forward” until the social media company’s CEO shows proof that less than 5 percent of the platform’s users are fake accounts.
The issue of fake accounts prompted the Tesla CEO to declare the deal on hold last week.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said Monday the site suspends more than half a million spam accounts daily. He said its estimate of Twitter bots is based on reviews, conducted by people quarterly, of thousands of accounts — which are randomly sampled — that it counts as active on the platform. But Musk said he thought the real proportion of bots on the site is “four or five times" what Twitter has claimed.
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