New Delhi, Sep 1 : Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday took on the Parag Agrawal’s platform again, following an expert in cybersecurity said that up to 8 in 10 Twitter accounts have fake accounts.Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity firm F5 who worked for more than twenty years with the US federal law enforcement and intelligence organizations He told The Australian that more than 80 percent of Twitter accounts are bots.
This is a huge claim considering that Twitter claims that just 5 per cent of its users are spammers or bots.
“Sure that’s more than 5 percent,” tweeted Musk, along with tweeting the news article’s hashtag.
“On an $/bot basis this deal is amazing,” he chuckled.
Musk has ended the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal, and the issue is currently in an US court, concerning the existence of bots operating on the platform.
The court wants answers from Agrawal through an open discussion.
According to Woods who is an ex- CIA and FBI cybersecurity specialist Both Musk as well as Twitter have underestimated the bot issue on the micro-blogging platform.
Musk is now trying to get additional time with the court to begin the Twitter trial, which is scheduled for October 17 and in reference to the testimony of whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko.
Zatko is scheduled to testify before the US Congress on Wednesday, September 13, over claims he made against the micro-blogging platform run by Agrawal.
The former Twitter security head has claimed that Twitter was misleading authorities on its security practices and the actual amount of bot accounts.
Zatko has also been served with an order by the legal department of Musk to show up in an interview on September 9 in the ongoing litigation between Twitter and Musk.
Musk has stated that the evidence of Twitter whistleblowers is the reason for his reversal of the deal worth $44 billion that he signed to purchase the micro-blogging site.
The Tesla CEO must show the judge that Twitter has violated a specific provision of the merger agreement or he must shell out a fine of $1 billion to cancel the deal.
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