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Nearly 1 in 4 of Elon Musk's Twitter followers are fake: report
Nearly one out of every four of Elon Musk’s Twitter followers are either spam or bot accounts, according to researchers.
Musk, who has signaled he may pull out of his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter because of the prevalence of fake bots, has a total of 93.8 million followers on the social media platform.
Of those, more than 23.42% of them are either fake or spam accounts, according to two research groups whose findings were reported by Business Insider.
nypost.com
Facebook pays money to Facebook users
The payments are part of a settlement over the company's facial recognition technology, the most visible digital privacy enforcement yet.
nbcnews.com
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