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Title: Twitter’s major faults amid messy legal battle with Musk revealed by expert Originally reported on www.the-sun.com by Cheyenne R. Ubiera

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Twitter’s major faults amid messy legal battle with Musk revealed by expert.

A LEGAL expert highlighted some major faults with Twitter as the messy legal battle between Elon Musk and the problematic platform continues.

Adam Wandt, assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, spoke exclusively with The U.S. about the problems affecting Twitter during its trial against the SpaceX CEO.

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Elon Musk and Twitter are set to go to trial next month, continuing the messy legal battleCredit: AFP
Musk took issue with the number of fake accounts and bots on the platform

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Musk took issue with the number of fake accounts and bots on the platformCredit: AFP
Assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Adam Wandt said that Twitter has been a problematic platform for a very long time

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Assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Adam Wandt said that Twitter has been a problematic platform for a very long timeCredit: Adam Scott Wandt

“None of this means anything,” said Wandt. 

“Twitter has been a problematic platform for a very long time and none of the current legal issues or news affects the average user because it doesn’t change the experience for them.”

Wandt explained that the Twitter experience “is not what it should be” and hasn’t been for some time.

“It’s way too easy to create fake accounts and have bots give out false information,” he added.

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Bots were a big issue for Musk, who announced that he would terminate his $44billion deal to buy Twitter due to constant disagreements over the number of spam accounts on the platform.

Bots, also known as fake or spam accounts, refer to accounts that imitate how people use the site.

The accounts can tweet people, follow and be followed, and can act like authentic accounts, making it hard to detect which ones are true or not.

When he announced his intention to buy Twitter in April, Musk repeatedly spoke about bots on the platform, prompting Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal to respond that the company fights against spam accounts.

Twitter has said that a rough estimate of bots on the platform was only about five percent.

Musk responded with a poop emoji, calling the claim “bs.”

Wandt believes Twitter may be misrepresenting its statistics.

“I believe 100 percent that Elon Musk’s questioning of Twitter is a legitimate thing.

“However, there’s no way in the work Elon didn’t know what he was getting into when he decided to engage with Twitter in the first place.

“Anyone who does these analytics knows what these numbers are supposed to be. He had to have known before he even started.”

Wandt cited examples such as Facebook and Zoom which had their own issues with security and privacy.

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Zoom had severe issues with trolls hacking and “porn bombing” calls.

“Zoom hired top professionals to come [to] fix these issues and did a great job doing so. Facebook has also done a ton of effort on that front – a better job than Twitter,” he said.

“Twitter could be turned into a platform that is reliable and secure. It’s a very large task. but Twitter needs to make significant advances to get themselves there.”

TWITTER WHISTLEBLOWER

Last week, a Delaware court denied Musk’s attempt to delay his trial against the social media platform.’

He claims that Twitter wasn’t running its business how he expected as the acquisition was closing.

Twitter, however, claimed that the billionaire was trying to drag out the trial and “sow chaos” with more document requests, even claiming that the company’s lawyers have had to halt responding to international law enforcement requests.

The trial is expected to start on October 17, earlier than the mid-November date Musk sought.

Judge Jude McCormick allowed Musk’s team to include evidence related to whistleblower allegations by former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko – who is scheduled to testify to Congress next week about the company’s poor cybersecurity practices.

Shortly after Zatko’s allegations went public, Agrawal called the claims “false” in a memo to employees obtained by CNN.

“It is a false narrative that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and presented without important context,” Agrawal wrote, saying the company was still reviewing the complaint.

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It’s unknown if the trial will go in Musk’s favor, but Wandt believes it will not end with the billionaire owning Twitter.

“He might have a fee to get out of his contract, but I don’t think Elon will get stuck with Twitter.”

Wandt doesn't believe that Musk will end up with Twitter regardless of the outcome of the trial

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Wandt doesn’t believe that Musk will end up with Twitter regardless of the outcome of the trialCredit: AFP
Musk attempted to delay the trial, but was denied by a judge

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Musk attempted to delay the trial, but was denied by a judgeCredit: Twitter



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