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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by badwolf on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:27AM (#31166116)
"In an unmoderated online forum, all speakers do not play by the same rules or have the same tools. University of Maryland professor David Kirsch has found that automated pro-Tesla Twitter accounts are responsible for 20% of the tweets about Tesla, and that the launching of these bots correlates with increases in the company’s stock price. It’s not just bots. Say something negative about Elon online, and I’ll vouch for this, the Tesla Taliban comes for you. Anyone who tells you this is "free speech" doesn’t want freedom, they want power via elimination of competitive speech."

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/musk-is-of...

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by throwaway290 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:54AM (#31169048)
Quite ironic, considering

"I mean, frankly a top priority I would have is eliminating the spam and scam bots and the bot armies that are on Twitter," he said. "I think these influence … They make the product much worse. If I had a dogecoin for every crypto scam I saw, I would have a hundred billion dogecoin."

https://www.thestreet.com/.amp/technology/twitter-deal-bots

In fact, I think Twitter announced new measures of linking bots to bot operators back in Feb, so I have no idea why this bothers Elon so much (unless being identified as the owner of the entire Tesla bot horde is exactly what he is worrying about).

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