What Texas Gains by Investigating Twitter's Fake Accounts – The New York Times

For Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, there are positives. Aligning with Elon Musk? Check. Politically helpful? Check.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas in 2021. This week, he said he was opening an investigation into Twitter.Credit…Cooper Neill for The New York TimesBy David McCabe and J. David GoodmanDavid McCabe, who covers technology, reported this article from Washington D.C. and J. David Goodman, who covers Texas, reported from Houston.June 8, 2022, 1:00 p.m. ETWhen Elon Musk said on Twitter last month that he planned to vote Republican and predicted that Democrats would mount a “dirty tricks campaign against me,” he received a warm response from Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas.“Believe me when I say, ‘I understand,’” Mr. Paxton tweeted on May 24, the same day that he won a bruising Republican primary runoff for re-election, despite being accused of wrongdoing by former aides and facing criminal indictment in state court for securities fraud.This week, Mr. Paxton once again aligned himself with Mr. Musk. The state attorney general said Texas was opening an investigation into Twitter and demanded the company turn over information about automated accounts that can spread spam on the…
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