of the company and testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee by whistleblower and former Twitter security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko.
The social media giant is suing the Tesla chief executive in the Delaware Court of Chancery over the termination of his deal. Musk, who has countersued, claims Twitter made misrepresentations about the total number of spam and fake accounts on its platform when it accepted his $54.20-per-share acquisition offer in April. Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks during a tour of the plant of the future foundry of the Tesla Gigafactory Aug. 13, 2021, in Grünheide near Berlin, Germany.
He also claims Twitter executives are "not incentivized to accurately ‘detect’ or report total spam bots on the platform." Instead, they are allegedly incentivized to boost the company's monetizable daily active users count with bonuses that can exceed $10 million. In addition, Zatko says Twitter does not have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform.
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