JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has shown support for Elon Musk’s mission to purge Twitter of fake accounts if the Tesla cofounder’s multibillion-dollar purchase of the company goes ahead. “I hope Musk cleans up Twitter,” Dimon said in an interview with CNBC that aired on Tuesday, referring to the Tesla CEO’s $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform. Musk said last week that he would go ahead with his purchase of Twitter at the same price he offered back in April, following months of legal drama as he attempted to back out of the deal after claiming the company had inflated its user figures with millions of bot accounts. The Tesla cofounder and world’s wealthiest person has long publicized his hatred of bots—automated accounts programmed to interact with users on the site. “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans,” he said in a statement in April. Not always allies In Tuesday’s interview, Dimon appeared to back Musk on the need to rid Twitter of bots. “Why can’t Twitter know who you are when you…
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Jamie Dimon is sick of bots too—and calls on Elon Musk to 'clean up Twitter' – Fortune
