Elon Musk and Twitter: Why bots could bring down the $44 million deal - USA TODAY

Bots have the power to skew elections, spread dangerous misinformation and exacerbate conflict. But that’s not likely what Elon Musk cares about.

Any minute now, the world’s richest man will either buy Twitter, tweet a poop emoji to the social media’s current CEO (yes, that really happened) or bring up the issue of a user-base bot-count one mo… [+6396 chars]

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