What the Twitter Whistleblower Disclosure Says About Spam Bots, and What It Means for Elon Musk

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Twitter’s former security chief has alleged that the platform has far more spam bots than it acknowledges, which seems to support similar allegations made by Elon Musk. Here's what this could mean for Musk:

first reported Mudge’s whistleblower disclosure, which was filed in July with regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Mr. Zatko’s allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.” “We have already issued a subpoena for Mr. Zatko, and we found his exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been finding,” Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro told TIME after the whistleblower disclosures were released.At the heart of the dispute over bots: how the company counts the number of people who use Twitter., the company stopped reporting raw user numbers and started using its own measure, a statistic it calls monetizable daily active Twitter users .

“Twitter created the mDAU metric precisely to avoid having to honestly answer the very questions Mr. Musk raised,” Zatko claims in the whistleblower report.

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