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Whistleblower Says Twitter Lied to Musk
About Spam Bots, With Possible Implications
for Trial

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Posted By: earlybird, 8/24/2022 12:03:54 PM

A whistleblower who served as Twitter’s security chief said in regulatory filings obtained by The Epoch Times that the social media company misled tech entrepreneur Elon Musk about the number of bots on the platform, with possible implications for the legal battle between the Tesla chief and Twitter. Peiter Zatko, who has publicly come forward as the whistleblower, made a series of explosive allegations regarding Twitter’s cybersecurity policies in a disclosure filed in July with federal regulators (pdf), including the claim of Twitter “lying about bots to Elon Musk.” Zatko’s disclosure alleges that Twitter uses an “opaque metric” called monetizable daily active users (mDAU), rather than an earlier metric of total monthly

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mifla 8/24/2022 12:56:59 PM (No. 1257913)
He is not going down on the USS Twitter.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Highlander 8/24/2022 12:57:02 PM (No. 1257914)
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if Twitter is discovered to had been running with more bots than with actual people?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Aubreyesque 8/24/2022 1:02:19 PM (No. 1257919)
Elon Musk needs to go after Chris Bouzy (Bot Sentinel) and others like him. Twitter has been sleeping in their beds for a long time.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 8/24/2022 1:06:05 PM (No. 1257921)
Of course the Twts lied. The entire operation is a scam, with the purpose to influence public perception by using millions of fake "users" to make lefty garbage ideas seem popular. Total corruption.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 8/24/2022 1:06:49 PM (No. 1257922)
"If?" #2.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: RWPollock 8/24/2022 1:29:19 PM (No. 1257935)
Since they lied, does this mean they are desperate to sell? If so, is Twitter now a ‘has been’ platform in the eyes of the public?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: red1066 8/24/2022 1:31:40 PM (No. 1257939)
I don't think we really needed a whistleblower to tell us this. It was already common knowledge.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 8/24/2022 5:09:20 PM (No. 1258175)
Do I remember correctly that Rush used to go on about this all the time, the fake consensus bot thing?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 8/24/2022 5:48:15 PM (No. 1258220)
The clock is still ticking. Elon will get Tweeter in due course. And at a bargain basement price once the value of the bots are excluded from the deal.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Speedypetey 8/25/2022 8:23:08 AM (No. 1258600)
Since traffic and participation are their commodity Twitter criminally falsified financials released to the SEC and Wall Street. Where are the bureaucrats or the institutional managers screaming? Or did they already know that the cooked books went along with the propaganda and censorship?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: HisHandmaiden 8/25/2022 10:22:19 AM (No. 1258777)
Elon is a smart sharp patriot, he will stay on Truth Social and have fun with more purchases while annoying the infidels… TBIYTC
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Zigrid 8/25/2022 11:11:10 AM (No. 1258831)
Well...good for Elon Musk...he called them on their fake game...but remember Rush many years ago did the same thing...when the fake media tried to convince everyone that no one was following Rush....he called them out by researching the numbers and called them on it...they backed off immediately...looks like Elon found the same situation and called them on it....and now with Truth Social ....President Trump doesn't need tweeter for anything....
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