{"id":143934,"date":"2022-08-14T19:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/elon-musks-lawyers-say-twitter-is-hiding-the-identities-of-key-staff-who-calculate-bot-numbers-the-main-sticking-point-in-the-44-billion-deal-reports-say"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:01:43","slug":"elon-musks-lawyers-say-twitter-is-hiding-the-identities-of-key-staff-who-calculate-bot-numbers-the-main-sticking-point-in-the-44-billion-deal-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/elon-musks-lawyers-say-twitter-is-hiding-the-identities-of-key-staff-who-calculate-bot-numbers-the-main-sticking-point-in-the-44-billion-deal-reports-say","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s lawyers say Twitter is hiding the identities of key staff who calculate bot numbers, the main sticking point in the $44 billion deal, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-lawyers-say-twitter-is-hiding-the-identities-of-key-staff-who-calculate-bot-numbers-the-main-sticking-point-in-the-44-billion-deal-reports-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of bots and spam accounts on the platform has been a sticking point for Musk throughout the deal. After months of back and forth, Musk\u2019s issues with spam accounts eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-says-he-is-terminating-his-deal-to-buy-twitter-2022-7?r=US&IR=T\">led him to publicly pull out of the $44 billion deal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, Musk accused Twitter of withholding information about the number of bots on the platform, later citing it as the reason for withdrawing his bid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-says-he-is-terminating-his-deal-to-buy-twitter-2022-7?r=US&IR=T\">Musk\u2019s lawyers claimed in a termination letter that his analysis indicated<\/a> the percentage of false accounts on Twitter was \u201cwildly higher than 5%\u201d \u2014 the number Twitter disclosed in its financial reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of bots and spam accounts on the platform has been a sticking point for Musk throughout the deal. After months of back and forth, Musk\u2019s issues with spam accounts eventually led him to publicly pull out of the $44 billion deal. Last month, Musk accused Twitter of withholding information about the number of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2019,45,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-elon-musk","category-finance","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}