Donald Trump claims Elon Musk is holding off on his bid for Twitter because there are too many bots on the social media platform.
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During a campaign rally in Austin, Texas, former President Trump promoted his new social media platform Truth Social and stated Musk is not going to buy Twitter based on some factors. ‘I don’t believe he is going to buy Twitter. Because you have so many fake accounts with the bots… all of the different things I think it is going to be very interesting,’ he said to his supporters.
‘And he’s got some problems ’cause he bought some stock that he shouldn’t have bought, he’s got a a lot of problems with Twitter. But Twitter has a lot of problems.’
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Trump urged the public to follow Truth Social because it reportedly tells accurate facts on the platform.
‘So go to Truth Social. I think you’re going to find that Truth is great. We tell the truth! I think it’s great we got that name,’ Trump continued, ‘We’re driving the radical left crazy. We have something called truth. We don’t say we’ve put out a tweet, we say, we put out a truth. They go totally crazy. So go, sign up.’
Truth Social was launched on January 8, 2021, two days after he was banned from Twitter due to his influence on the insurrection of the Capitol building. However, Elon Musk did say that the former president should be unbanned from the platform.
Even though I think a less divisive candidate would be better in 2024, I still think Trump should be restored to Twitter
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 12, 2022
Yesterday, Musk said he was putting the bid on hold due to the numerous bot and fake accounts that are on Twitter.
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter.
I invite others to repeat the same process and see what they discover …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
The bots are angry at being counted 🤣
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also agreed with Musk’s statement and noted he supported bans of specific content such as child sexual exploitation as reported by the Daily Mail.
‘There are exceptions (CSE, illegal behavior, spam or network manipulation, etc), but generally, permanent bans are a failure of ours and don’t work, which I wrote about here after the event (and called for a resilient social media protocol).’
As previously reported, former President Trump said he will not return to Twitter after learning about Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform.
‘I will be on Truth Social within the week. It’s on schedule. We have a lot of people signed up. I like Elon Musk. I like him a lot. He’s an excellent individual. We did a lot for Twitter when I was in the White House. I was disappointed by the way I was treated by Twitter. I won’t be going back on Twitter,’