Twitter's Response to Zacko's Allegation

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Zacko says Twitter executives were being deceptive about the bot problem. The timing of this is incredibly fortuitous to say the least for Elon Musk, central to his argument of getting out of buying Twitter for $44 billion. And so it's almost certain that we're going to hear from Zacko in the trial.

Today marks six months since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a Twitter whistleblower says the company hid security flaws and fake accounts, and the waters off the coast of Somalia are no longer high risk for shipping

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