{"id":131870,"date":"2022-09-04T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=131870"},"modified":"2022-09-04T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T14:53:13","slug":"twittergate-analysis-by-cybersecurity-specialist-finds-as-many-as-80-percent-of-twitter-accounts-are-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=131870","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>TWITTERgate: Analysis by cybersecurity specialist finds as many as 80 percent of Twitter accounts are bots<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>Elon Musk Responds After Analysis Finds Vast Majority of Twitter Accounts Are Bots<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Submitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has responded to an independent analysis that found most Twitter accounts, by far, are fake, spam, or bot accounts.<\/p>\n<p>According to leading cyber security specialist Dan Woods, who formerly worked for the FBI and CIA, as many as 80 percent of Twitter accounts are bots, The Australian reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure sounds higher than 5%!\u201d Musk wrote on the platform in response to Woods\u2019 findings.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/elon-12-66148\/?utm_source=CB&amp;utm_medium=BFT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/elon-12-66148\/?utm_source%3DCB%26utm_medium%3DBFT&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1662385612573000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3YjW8FLLADTP1d83N4mpaM\">https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/<wbr \/>elon-12-66148\/?utm_source=CB&amp;<wbr \/>utm_medium=BFT<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk Responds After Analysis Finds Vast Majority of Twitter Accounts Are Bots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}