Texas is investigating how Twitter may be ‘misleading Texans’ about the number of automated bots on its platform.
‘It matters not only for regular Twitter users, but also Texas businesses and advertisers who use Twitter for their livelihoods,’ Paxton said.
Paxton says he has requested documents from Twitter through a Civil Investigative Demand to determine if the company is in breach of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act about its bot estimates. The investigation seems convenient for Twitter’s potential new owner, Elon Musk, who seemed well aware of the state of the company’s bots that he repeatedly vowed to fix.April 21, 2022
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