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Company illegally and fraudulently defrauded him. i think that is a hard argument to make in part because elon musk said one of the reasons that he was buying twitter was to get rid of all of the bots. so you he knew there was a bot problem. he's going to go to twitter and say i could either do this deal at a lower price, or we could go to court and do this for 18 months and maybe you like that better. and i think depending on what the price is, the board may say, we'll take it. >> all right. andrew ross sorkin, thank you very much for your insight. we really appreciate it. time now for brand ...

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Health, but let's get to what you know best. why does it still have a bot problem and why does russia's ability to use this platform so well concern you? >> well, the challenge that facebook and twitter and instagram and platforms like that were scammers, people trying to make money through fake accounts. when you think about the war between these teams inside these companies and these spammers are on a level playing ground in terms of sophistication, when you bring in state actors, russia, china, and to a lesser extent iran and north korea, you're talking about countries with almost unlimited...

Congress seems pretty intent on trying to put some time type of regulations on how they function and transparency in terms of who is doing what on their sites. >> we have the fcc. facebook has been as carol was just saying forthcoming than twitter has. what is facebook -- how is that going to affect how the lawmakers react? >> i mean, it has a huge effect. when you take a look at what facebook has revealed, they've revealed it publicly. they put out a blog post. they had a $100,000 worth of ads. the other key thing is think about what senator warner has been saying this whole time. facebook an...