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Oh man this article alone was so exciting it's worth the monthly subscription for your writing Brian Cates! Oh I hope Musk takes Phillips idea

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I hope Gregg Phillips and Catherine Englbrecht expose them all!

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sounds like a game changer

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Jun 12, 2022
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Is this the best you got?😂😂😂

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You got proof of that Gene? Or are you just one of the bots? And if they WERE in communication, do you have that information? How do you know it wasn't a cease and desist conversation? Or an attempt to discover what they were up to? Or a message from a Trump Attorney? Do you KNOW? Or do you just like to throw shit at the walls to see what people will believe? You people are really infected with TDS.

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Sure hope Elon makes use of this!

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If anyone has the capabilities of analyzing the ‘firehose’ of data it would be Musk.

He’ll need a team of data scientists was well as possibly the help of some AI specialists plus a large data center. At an average of 500 million tweets a day and the associated metadata and geolocation tags that’s going to be massive undertaking.

The main issue will the possibility of accidental doxxing of users, the meta and geolocation data is I think covered under User privacy agreements and I can’t see Musk simply turning over any of this data legally to anyone else as it’s outside of the scope of his original request to determine the percentage of bots on Twitter.

Most commercially sold geolocation data has been anonymized to some extent so the real ID of the user is not included in the data.

The reason I say this is because Phillips sounds like he would be interested in access to this data in support of his investigations. I don’t think Musk can acknowledge this offer in anyway even if he were sympathetic to Phillips objectives.

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It’s my understanding Phillips and true the vote has already had access to this data

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Jun 12, 2022
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@Gene Frenkle

There, there, there. It's nearly time for your meds. Try to stay calm.

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