The history of presidential comments on social media is definitely not a short one. From time to time, President López Obrador has been very vocal about how Twitter has dealt with the issue of bots and has even accused him of being totally biased on political issues.
Now in the conference this June 27the president has again mentioned the issue of bots on Twitter and has said that due to the magnitude of the problem is that its sale has not been finalized, referring to the potential purchase of Elon Musk. “There Twitter, which is increasingly discredited, that’s why they don’t even want to buy it anymore“, said.
For the president, what Twitter does is favor the “information trade”, and even gave as an example the censorship of the tweets of former President Donald Trump, after the events of the assault on the capitol in early 2021.
“It’s so easy to solve not allowing the trade of information and putting ethics first, really. What, they can’t do it? How could they censor the president of the United States, when he was leaving, and they’re not to be able to put order without limiting freedom of expression?
President Lopez Obrador
a rough relationship
A couple of years ago, the president said that he would request reports from Facebook and Twitter to reveal how many real users there are on each network, how many are users, and how much social networks earn from bot campaigns. Back then he said that Mexico “It is one of the countries most affected by the bot issue” and orchestrated campaigns. Twitter responded just a day later saying that the platform no revenue from malicious automation or bots.
Recently, after the announcement of the purchase of the network by Musk, the tycoon has said that Twitter has no clear idea of how many bots it has, which directly affects the estimates of monetizable accounts. Among the promises he has made for when he acquires the social network is to end malicious automated accounts and increase network users to one billion.
For some analysts, the bot debacle has more to do with an attempt by Musk to reduce the price offered by Twitter. Musk at the time offered 44,000 million dollars, at a price of 54 dollars per share. Today each share of Twitter is trading below $40.
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