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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by initplus on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:42PM (#32028622)
No kidding Twitter has spam/fake accounts, isn't that part of why Musk wanted to buy Twitter in the first place?

He publicly stated that he wanted to buy Twitter to clear up the fake account issue, he knew about the issue before entering the deal, when signing he waived due diligence that could have given him the opportunity to investigate the issue before signing...

Musk's own tweets will work against him if he tries to use the fake accounts issue to back out.

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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by recuter on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:50PM (#32029572)
His stated reason to buy twitter was in defense of free speech, despite the bots not because of them.

I'm guessing he saw a glimpse of just how extensive the problem really is and the unwillingness of the organization to be remotely honest about it. It would not surprise me if it was 95% bots, rather than 5%.

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