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Texas A.G. Paxton Launches Investigation Against Twitter for Potentially Deceiving Texas Consumers, Texas Businesses Over Fake Bot Accounts
June 07, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas, June 7 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release:

Today Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation against Twitter for potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

On Twitter, "bots" are automated, non-human accounts that can do virtually the same things as real people: send tweets, follow other users, and like and retweet others' pos . . .

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