Most Read from BloombergWith less than $100, one can buy tens of thousands of votes for Twitter polls using bot-for-hire manipulation services, according to the nonprofit digital rights group Accountable Tech. “Not only are bots flourishing under Musk, it’s now easier than ever to use bots to manipulate Twitter polls,” said Nicole Gill, co-founder and executive director of Accountable Tech. On the evening of Dec. 18, Musk ran his most popular Twitter poll yet: asking users whether he should step down as Twitter’s CEO. Twitter will make that change.”Two former members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team said the company has lacked proper safeguards to identify and eradicate inauthentic behavior and manipulation of Twitter polls. “Polls are more prone to manipulation than almost anything else on Twitter,” Roth added.
