Texas Attorney General Opens Investigation of Twitter Bots
- Paxton claims platform may be falsely reporting bot accounts
- Elon Musk is threatening to cancel Twitter purchase over bots
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he opened an investigation of Twitter, claiming the social media platform may be misleading people with false reporting of its bot accounts, violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
The Republican attorney general announced the probe the same day Twitter would-be buyer, billionaire Elon Musk, threatened to pull out of his deal to purchase the company, saying it wasn’t meeting his demands for more information about spam and fake accounts.