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Elon Musk’s Twitter bot problem is fake news

Musk has likened Twitter’s bots to termites in a house (Photo: Reutersd) — Musk has likened Twitter’s bots to termites in a house **(Photo: Reutersd)**

4 min read . Updated: 18 May 2022, 05:51 PM IST Laura Forman, The Wall Street Journal

Musk’s new Twitter diligence is as questionable as the bots he wants to ban

With his professed concern about fake accounts on Twitter, Elon Musk appears to be grasping at legal straws in an attempt to back out of his commitment to buy the social networking company for $54.20 a share, or at least to pay less for it. But his gambit has shined a light on a real scourge of online companies and their users.