None of that should have been a surprise for Musk, who tweeted that he was pausing the deal “pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users.” Musk was referring to a Twitter regulatory filing this month that said false or spam accounts constituted fewer than 5 percent of its 229 million daily active users.
But the problem took a grave turn in 2016, when Russian operatives from the Internet Research Agency sowed disinformation about the election to millions of people in favor of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms. Critics have argued that Twitter has an incentive to downplay the number of fake accounts on its platform and that the bot problem is far worse than the company admits. The company also allows some automation of accounts, such as news aggregators that pass along articles about specific topics or weather reports at set times or postings of photos every hour.
Carley said the proportion of bots tends to be much higher on topics where there is a clear financial goal, such as promoting a product or a stock, or a clear political goal, such as electing a candidate or encouraging distrust and division.There are also very different types of bots, including basic promotional spam, nation-state accounts and amplifiers for commercial hire.
Outsiders said it was very difficult for them to produce a good estimate of bot traffic with the limited help Twitter provides to research efforts. Twitter itself does not do nearly as much as it could to hunt down and eliminate bots, two former employees told The Post. But two other former employees told The Post that after 2018, the company acted far more aggressively.Some of the people speculated that financial incentives motivate Twitter to not find them.
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