NEW: Texas AG Opens New Investigation Against Twitter

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated an investigation to determine the extent of Twitter bot accounts.

According to FOX Business, Paxton’s office issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to investigate whether Twitter’s reporting on the number of bot accounts on the platform was “false, misleading, or deceptive” under Texas law. 

“Texans rely on Twitter’s public statements that nearly all its users are real people. In a statement, Paxton explained that this is not just for Twitter regular users. It also matters for Texas-based advertisers and Texas business owners who use Twitter to make their living.” “If Twitter misrepresents how many accounts it has created in order to boost their revenue, then I have a responsibility to protect Texans.”

Paxton claimed that the bot accounts used on the platform inflate followers’ reach and influence, as well as push annoying and deceptive activity. 

“A large number of bot accounts not reduces users’ experience on the platform, but may also inflate the value of the company and the costs of doing business with it, thus directly harming consumers and businesses – specifically, Texas consumers and businesses,” Paxton told FOX Business.

Here is the CIB report.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made it a top priority to quantify the bot accounts that are on the platform. Musk and Twitter were purchased for $44 Billion.

NewsBusters reported that Musk’s attorneys informed the platform that verifiable data on bot accounts was essential to the deal:

“Musk’s attorneys blasted Twitter leadership in a June 6 letter to Twitter Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde. ‘Twitter has, in fact, refused to provide the information that Mr. Musk has repeatedly requested since May 9, 2022 to facilitate his evaluation of spam and fake accounts on the company’s platform,’ says the letter, which was posted on the Securities and Exchange Commission website. 

‘[Musk] does not believe the company’s lax testing methodologies are adequate so he must conduct his own analysis,” the letter noted “The data he has requested is necessary to do so.” The letter explained that Musk “believes the company is actively resisting and thwarting his information rights (and the company’s corresponding obligations) under the merger agreement.’” 

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