Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he is investigating Twitter for potentially underreporting its number of spam bot accounts.
to purchase social media giant Twitter because, according to him, the company won’t disclose information on the number of its spam bot accounts.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced he is investigating Twitter for potentially underreporting its number of spam bot accounts
Paxton said that if Twitter is misrepresenting its number of spam accounts it may be “misleading Texans” and doing so in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices ActLater that day, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he’s investigating Twitter over the number of its bots, claiming the company may be “misleading Texans.”
“Twitter has received intense scrutiny in recent weeks over claiming in its financial regulatory filings that fewer than 5% of all users are bots, when they may in fact comprise as much as 20% or more. The difference could dramatically affect the cost to Texas consumers and businesses who transact with Twitter,” the announcement reads.that calls on Twitter to turn over documents “related to how it calculates and manages its data and how these numbers relate to Twitter’s advertising business.
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