Ex-security chief appears to echo claims by Elon Musk over the number of fake accounts on its site.
Mr Musk is trying to end his bid to buy Twitter, disputing its information on the number of fake accounts it has.It says he was sacked in January for ineffective leadership and poor performance.Mr Musk is currently in conflict with Twitter, after trying to pull out of a deal to purchase the company for $44bn .
In July, Mr Musk said he no longer wished to purchase the company, as he could not verify how many humans were on the platform.Twitter says it estimates that fewer than 5% of its daily active users are bot accounts.In a whistleblower complaint filed in July with US regulators, former head of security Mr Zatko accuses Twitter bosses of having little incentive to accurately identify or report total spam bots on the platform.
He claims he was unable to obtain from Twitter an "upper bound" for the number of bots, accusing senior management of having "no appetite to properly measure the prevalence of bots".
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