Earon Mask's ``Voting on Twitter's Important Decisions'' can also be operated with a voting bot that can be introduced for 10,000 yen

Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, has repeatedly voted on Twitter to revive former President Trump's Twitter account , cancel the frozen account , and resign from the CEO . On the other hand, Mr. Mask's frequent voting on Twitter is said to be easy to operate with bots, and it has been pointed out that it is dangerous to rely on Twitter's survey function for important decisions. Newly, the non-profit digital rights protection organization `` Accountable Tech '' announced on December 23, 2022 that `` by introducing a bot service of less than $ 100 (about 13,000 yen), tens of thousands of people will vote on Twitter. I reported the verification result that I can cast a vote.

As Elon Musk continues to post polls on Twitter for major policy decisions like the below, our team decided to test the validity of these polls.

This is what happened when we bought votes from bots for less than $100… pic.twitter.com/5iYJloIBFg

— Accountable Tech (@accountabletech) December 22, 2022

Accountable Tech verified whether voting by bots is possible, based on the fact that Mr. Mask agreed with the opinion that ``the voting results regarding his resignation as CEO were manipulated by bots''. First, Accountable Tech created a dummy Twitter account and conducted a vote saying 'Is voting on Twitter reliable?' As a result of having the bot participate in the voting, the bot introduced for $ 57 (about 7560 yen) succeeded in casting 26261 votes within 24 hours, and in this verification the result was less than $ 100 (about 13,000 yen) operation has been achieved.

We ran one straight-forward poll: Can polls on Twitter be trusted?

For $57 dollars in purchased for -hire bot services, we delivered 26,261 votes in under 24 hours.pic.twitter.com/2kL1LmP4y3

— Accountable Tech (@accountabletech) December 22, 2022

On the other hand, voting with the goal of voting 500,000 to 1 million votes by bots ended in failure, and researchers at Accountable Tech said, ``To vote on this scale, $ 2,600 (about 340,000 yen) We will need $ 3,600 (about 470,000 yen) from.'

So, “If the for-hire manipulation services were to ramp up their bandwidth, the Accountable Tech researchers estimated it would cost $2,600 to $3,600 to throw a popular poll at that scale.” https://t.co/urQDGPz28H

— Accountable Tech (@accountabletech) December 22, 2022

Nicole Gill , executive director of Accountable Tech, said, 'Not only are bots thriving under Musk, they also make it easier to manipulate Twitter poll results. 's voting feature is not secure and can be manipulated by malicious users, including foreign governments.'

As our Executive Director @nicolelgill told @business : “Not only are bots flourishing under Musk, it's now easier than ever to use bots to manipulate Twitter polls… Twitter is unsafe and open to manipulation by bad actors — including foreign governments.” https: //t.co/urQDGPz28H

— Accountable Tech (@accountabletech) December 22, 2022

News site Bloomberg responded to a survey conducted by Accountable Tech, saying, ``Mr. It may be called out,' he said .