Twitter Empowers Powerful Botnet Armies

Twitter's API enables so-called marginalized communities to turn their members into powerful botnet armies weaponized against conservatives.

In response to a discussion about platform manipulation of Twitter by coordinated actors - aka bots - Elon Musk offered a million-dollar bounty to anyone who could identify who was behind them. I began to wonder if Elon was aware that Twitter provides companies like Block Party access to the Twitter API enabling them to create platform manipulation tool…