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Audit Finds Half of President Biden’s Twitter Followers are Fake Bots

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President Joe Biden has an impressive 22.2 million followers on Twitter; but apparently half of them are bots. According to an audit tool from software company SparkToro, “49.3 percent of account’s following the official @POTUS Twitter account are ‘fake followers” reports Newsweek.

SparkToro defines “fake” as “accounts that are unreachable and will not see the account’s tweets (either because they’re spam, bots, propaganda, etc. or because they’re no longer active on Twitter.”

Analysis was conducted based on factors such as location issues, default profile images and new users. The information is of particular importance as Elon Musk has expressed his concern at the overwhelming number of fake accounts on the giant platform. Specifically, he claimed 20 percent of Twitter accounts were “fake/spam accounts” and that the figure is “4 times what Twitter claims” or even higher.

“Musk said early on Tuesday that his $44-billion deal to purchase the social media company could not go ahead until issues with fake accounts were resolved and appeared to criticize Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal” adds Newsweek.

The accusation put the acquisition in jeopardy, with the two men exchanging a series of tweets about the fake accounts issue on Monday.

The back-and-forth comes after Musk tweeted Friday that the deal to buy Twitter was placed on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts represent less than 5% of users.

“My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate,” Musk wrote. “Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.”

“We suspend over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter. We also lock millions of accounts each week that we suspect may be spam, if they can’t pass human verification challenges (captchas, phone verification, etc),” Agrawal wrote.

SparkToro’s tool also found that of Musk’s 93.3 million followers, 70.2 percent of those accounts are fake.

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8 Comments

8 Comments

  1. Eugene Pikul

    May 19, 2022 at 8:06 am

    Now this is the truth

  2. nattiedwards

    May 19, 2022 at 10:12 am

    Like fake votes voters.

  3. Arrow

    May 19, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    O’Biden is a lost soul. Demented to the max.

  4. Mary

    May 20, 2022 at 10:05 am

    Thanks to Elon Musk we find out about this.
    Big Tech is the Devil. Many of the people especially the CEOs are diabolical.

    Time to deal with BIG TECH!

  5. Publius Hamilton

    May 20, 2022 at 10:53 pm

    I’m sure the same is true with his 81 million voters.

  6. Sad4theUS

    May 21, 2022 at 12:21 am

    Do they really think when we see a lot of “likes” for a racist or dumb comment made by the likes of AOC, or any crazy leftist like that, that we also wouldn’t see they’re lying about how many people are really following these insane leftists?? Sorry Twitter, we do see how fake you are and how frightened you are of someone who wants real truth taking over the company!

  7. Stephane

    May 21, 2022 at 4:27 am

    The LUCIFER’s Brigade cannot be truthful.
    The DEMON RATS will forever lie.
    Every aspect of the regime of the left is based on deception.
    The actions of the left cannot be counted on as true!
    Every sin they accuse the Right of doing are their own!

  8. Clayce

    May 21, 2022 at 8:51 pm

    This proves that Twitter is lyeing AGAIN!

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Report: Google has ‘interfered’ in U.S. elections ‘dozens of times since 2008’

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The Media Research center released a report, published Monday by Fox News Digital, which demonstrates that Google has “interfered” in U.S. elections dozens of times since 2008. Specifically, “researchers at the center identified 41 times over the past 16 years where Google interfered in elections, a claim which the tech platform has strongly denied” reports Just the News.

“In every case, Google harmed the candidates–regardless of party–who threatened its left-wing candidate of choice,” the report states. One example is in 2008, Google “allied itself” with then-candidate Barack Obama and censored bloggers supporting then-candidate Hillary Clinton, per the report.

In 2012, Google’s algorithm negatively impacting Senator Rick Santorum, the leading GOP primary candidate, according to the researchers. Google’s interference also extended to “every federal election cycle since 2016, and it’s already impacting the 2024 election”, the report states.

Researchers recommended House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to direct committees to investigate the platform and for Americans to “stop using Google products, particularly Google Search and instead opt for one of the many alternatives.”

Just the News notes Google has denied the report’s findings: “There is absolutely nothing new here – just a recycled list of baseless, inaccurate complaints that have been debunked by third parties and many that failed in the courts,” a spokesperson for the company said. “We have a clear business incentive to keep everyone using our products, so we have no desire to make them biased or inaccurate and have safeguards in place to ensure this.”

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