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Elon Musk has suffered a number of setbacks recently in his attempt to legally extricate himself from the Twitter takeover agreement. However, a new whistleblower might just cast enough aspersions on Twitter's bot-related claims to provide the CEO of Tesla with a graceful exit.
As per the reporting by NY Post, a second whistleblower is currently mulling over the implications of testifying at the upcoming legal showdown between Elon Musk and Twitter, scheduled to commence on the 17th of October at the Delaware Court of Chancery. The would-be whistleblower, should he decide to become a part of the trial, is likely to cite an internal study conducted by Twitter a few years back, which had found that bots or fake accounts constituted as much as 30 percent of the platform's daily active users. In an interview with NY Post, the second whistleblower recalled that Twitter executives had laughed when they were informed about the study's findings, and said:
"We have always had a bot problem."
Bear in mind that the first Twitter whistleblower, who goes by the name Pieter "Mudge" Zatko, was the social media giant's security tzar until January 2022, when he was fired for allegedly raising the issue of chronic mismanagement at Twitter, including security lapses, technical shortcomings, and non-compliance with an already-signed privacy agreement with...
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