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Musk Cites Twitter's 'Bots' As Reason To Pull Out Of Deal

July 11, 2022

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The Independent

Elon Musk "tripled down" on his claim that Twitter was underreporting the number of spam accounts on its platform during an address to tech moguls, according to a new report.

- Bevan Hurley

Musk Cites Twitter's 'Bots' As Reason To Pull Out Of Deal

Musk spoke to a high-powered audience of media executives at the Allen & Co Sun Valley Conference in Idaho on Saturday, one day after he tried to pull out of the $44bn (£37bn) deal to take over the social media platform.

It was reported on Saturday that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had avoided talking about Twitter during an on-stage, off-the-record interview with Sam Altman, CEO of artificial intelligence research company OpenAI. But CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter claimed yesterday that Musk had in fact brought up the elephant in the room.

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