Musk now gets chance to defeat Twitter's many fake accounts

Many experts also doubt Musk's ability to easily make improvements, which he's suggested would rely on using algorithms to track and remove fake accounts and implementing new measures to 'authenticate' real people. — AFP

Twitter’s unending fight against spam accounts is now a problem for new owner Elon Musk, who pledged in April to defeat the bot scourge or "die trying!”

He later cited bots as a reason to back out of buying the social platform. Now that the billionaire has completed the deal, he's faced with the task of delivering on his promise to clean up the fake profiles that have preoccupied him and bedevilled Twitter since long before he expressed interest in acquiring it.