Research: tens of thousands of Twitter poll bot votes can cost less than $100, potentially undermining Elon Musk's move to rely on polls for company decisions
New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk has outsourced several controversial decisions — like whether to reinstate former US President …
As our Executive Director @nicolelgill told @business: “Not only are bots flourishing under Musk, it's now easier than ever to use bots to manipulate Twitter polls... Twitter is unsafe and open to manipulation by bad actors — including foreign governments.” https://www.bloomberg.…
Those Twitter polls Elon relies on to make policy decisions and replatform Trump and neo-nazis? Cheap and easy to manipulate. @accountabletech did it in a few days with dollars. @daveyalba has the full write-up. https://twitter.com/...
Elon Musk has declared victory over bots on Twitter, but our new research shows that “with less than $100, one can buy tens of thousands of votes for Twitter polls using bot-for-hire manipulation services.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
So, “If the for-hire manipulation services were to ramp up their bandwidth, the Accountable Tech researchers estimated it would cost $2,600 to $3,600 to throw a popular poll at that scale.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Elon Musk loves using Twitter polls for big decisions. But New research shows that with less than $100, anyone can buy tens of thousands of votes for Twitter polls using bot-for-hire manipulation services — enough to swing any result https://www.bloomberg.com/...