Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all our platform guests for joining us today.
I want to talk to Mr. Fernández regarding bots. Bots, we know, are a source of misinformation on social media platforms. Since X was sold, bots' activity on X has become worse than ever, according to experts like Timothy Graham at the Queensland University of Technology. There is an article from The Washington Post in July 2018 that reads:
The rate of account suspensions, which Twitter confirmed to The Post, has more than doubled since October, when the company revealed under congressional pressure how Russia used fake accounts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July.
However, according to your statements earlier today, Mr. Fernández, you said that X has removed 60,000 spamouflage accounts in the last year. Why is there such a discrepancy between the suspensions before Mr. Musk purchased the platform and what I referenced in 2018? Is that not a huge gap of bots still active?