Elon Musk says bots are a problem for Twitter deal, not China


Musk appears via video link during the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha, Qatar, on June 21, 2022. He told the forum he would focus on ‘driving the product’ at Twitter though he doesn’t necessarily plan to be the CEO. — Bloomberg

Elon Musk cautioned there are a number of issues to iron out before he can complete his US$44bil (RM193.47bil) takeover of Twitter Inc, including getting an accurate measure of bots on the social media platform and completing financing for the deal.

The proportion of fake, spam and bot accounts on the service is “still a very significant matter”, Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. “And of course there is the question of, will the debt portion of the round come together, and then will the shareholders vote in favour.”

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