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""" The focus of the recent debate on estimating the number of Twitter bots oversimplifies the issue and misses the point of quantifying the harm of online abus

""" The focus of the recent debate on estimating the number of Twitter bots oversimplifies the issue and misses the point of quantifying the harm of online abuse and manipulation by inauthentic accounts. """ This article is missing the point. The reason Musk wants to know how many bots there are is because a lot of the advertising revenue isn't "pay per click" ads, but just companies advertising for more eyes to see it. In that case, companies aren't going to pay if it's not real human eyes seeing it bit of clickbait

RugnirViking 4y ago
> The reason Musk wants to know Musk wants to know so he doesn't have to pay the price he agreed to pay given the entire tech stock market just took like a 50% hit. It's nothing to do with bots and everything to do with getting out of the deal/getting a more sane price and honestly fair enough I wouldn't want to massively overpay for something like that either.