“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’ posts… Twitter has received intense scrutiny in recent weeks over claiming in its financial regulatory filings that fewer than 5% of all users are bots, when they may in fact comprise as much as 20% or more. The difference could dramatically affect the cost to Texas consumers and businesses who transact with Twitter,” writes Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a Monday press release.

“To address this concern, Attorney General Paxton issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to investigate whether Twitter’s reporting on real versus fake users is ‘false, misleading, or deceptive’ under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The CID requires Twitter to turn over documents related to how it calculates and manages its user data and how these numbers relate to Twitter’s advertising businesses. Twitter has until June 27 to respond to Attorney General Paxton’s Demand. ‘Texans rely on Twitter’s public statements that nearly all its users are real people. It matters not only for regular Twitter users, but also Texas businesses and advertisers who use Twitter for their livelihoods,’ said Attorney General Paxton. ‘If Twitter is misrepresenting how many accounts are fake to drive up their revenue, I have a duty to protect Texans,'” concluded the man facing disbarment for his failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election by suing Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the Supreme Court in December of 2020.

We skipped this because Elon Musk is a fucking assclown and we’re getting kind of sick of covering it every time he scratches his balls, but yet again on Monday he threatened to walk away from the deal to purchase the massively influential social media platform, something only an idiot would think is somehow unconnected to a douchebag like Ken Paxton making noises for the exact same reason, since Musk promised to let fat Former President Trump back on Twitter after the purchase.