A PhD student has been running a free tool to help identfiy bots in his spare time. Now his bot detection software is at the center of a titanic legal battle between Elon Musk and Twitter.
Elon Musk’s argument on why he should no longer have to buy Twitter. And Yang, a PhD student at Indiana University, was shocked to discover that his bot detection software was at the center of a titanic legal battle.
According to legal documents, Yang’s Botometer, a free tool that claims it can identify how likely a Twitter account is to be a bot, has been critical in helping Team Musk prove that figure is not true. “Contrary to Twitter’s representations that its business was minimally affected by false or spam accounts, the Musk Parties’ preliminary estimates show otherwise,” says Musk’s counterclaim.
Despite that, Botometer has become prolific, especially among university researchers, due to the demand for tools that promise to distinguish bot accounts from humans. As a result, it will not only be Musk and Twitter on trial in October, but also the science behind bot detection.
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