• traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 17 09:37:53 2024
    The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during
    the Super Bowl, report suggests

    These numbers are legitimately shocking.

    This week, Super Bowl 2024 shattered records, with the NFL
    championship broadcast on CBS becoming the most-watched televised
    event in U.S. history.

    Also riding high from the big game? Elon Musk's X. The company
    formerly known as Twitter published its own press release, lauding
    Super Bowl LVIII as one of the biggest events ever on the social media
    platform with more than 10 billion impressions and over 1 billion
    video views.

    However, it appears that a significant portion of that traffic on X
    could be fake, according to data provided to Mashable by CHEQ, a
    leading cybersecurity firm that tracks bots and fake users.

    According to CHEQ, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was
    fake.

    https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

    Would Musk do this? Tesla's vehicle battery indicator for mileage
    available was tweaked to give the impression older batteries still had
    full mileage available. I believe so....cheaters are cheaters.

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