[ramblerman]

But we were talking about bots. You and Parag are shifting the dialogue to spam

> The hard challenge is that many accounts which look fake superficially – are actually real people. And some of the spam accounts which are actually the most dangerous – and cause the most harm to our users – can look totally legitimate on the surface.

He's not talking about detecting bots. I.e. fake and automated accounts. He's talking about twitter users/bots that cause what they perceive to be harmful content. Which is a very different thing, and was the whole point of Musk's intended involvement in the first place.

[8note]

And? Only advertisers see the harm from bots - being charged for bot impressions.

Outside of that, bots cause the same problems that real people do, making twitter a place people don't want to spend time on/view ads on.

The advertisers need both bad groups removed