<p style="font-weight: 400;">Elon Musk, who <a href="https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-files-to-terminate-44-billion-dollar-twitter-deal-court-documents/">filed to cancel his agreement</a> to buy Twitter in July after saying Twitter minimized the number of fake accounts on its platform, reacted to a <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/former-cia-and-fbi-security-specialist-says-more-than-80-per-cent-of-twitter-accounts-are-bots/news-story/6996bf16dd9008d096d95fb665d05104">report</a> from a former CIA and FBI cyber security specialist who said the number of fake accounts on Twitter is far larger than the company admits.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Dan Woods, global head of cyber security provider F5’s intelligence, where he examines bot traffic, estimated that as many as 80% of Twitter accounts are fake.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Musk has cited the vast presence of Twitter bots as a reason for backing out of his purchase of Twitter and asserted that Twitter’s claim that less than 5% of its accounts were fake was false. Musk has also stated Twitter “failed or refused to provide” further information about spam bots.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Sure sounds higher than 5%!” Musk tweeted in response to Woods’ estimate.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sure sounds higher than 5%!<br /> <a href="https://t.co/Va7TxxzoI6">https://t.co/Va7TxxzoI6</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1565189065158311937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">He quipped, “On a $/bot basis, this deal is awesome.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">On a $/bot basis, this deal is awesome</p>
<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1565190122924015616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In his July filing, Musk charged, “Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk&#8217;s requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Musk’s attorneys have subpoenaed Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, the company’s former security chief, who alleged that Twitter had intentionally minimized its estimate of the number of bots using the platform.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">On August 6, Musk challenged Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal on Twitter, snapping, “I hereby challenge @paraga to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage. Let him prove to the public that Twitter has &lt;5% fake or spam daily users!”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I hereby challenge <a href="https://twitter.com/paraga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@paraga</a> to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage. </p>
<p>Let him prove to the public that Twitter has &lt;5% fake or spam daily users!</p>
<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1555950698252181507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Woods told <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/former-cia-and-fbi-security-specialist-says-more-than-80-per-cent-of-twitter-accounts-are-bots/news-story/6996bf16dd9008d096d95fb665d05104">The Australian</a> that he created a fake Twitter account with which he bought over 100,000 fake Twitter followers.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m not a programmer, but I watched YouTube and in a weekend I wrote a script that automatically creates accounts on Twitter without encountering any obstacles,” he explained. “There’s huge demand [for bots], there’s a marketplace to serve that demand and if I can write a bot that creates accounts on Twitter, and I’m not even a programmer, imagine what a sophisticated programmer could do. Twitter doesn’t want (its number of bots) to be that high, so they’re going through the motions of cancelling some accounts.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m not saying they’re lying,” he added. “but we’ve really studied these accounts and we’ve come to the conclusion that there are a lot more fake accounts than Twitter is letting on.”</p>

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