On June 7, Beijing time, the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, launched an investigation on twitter on Monday because the company may have wrongly reported the number of fake robot accounts, in violation of the Texas fraudulent trade practices act.
Paxton's office asked twitter to produce documents explaining how the company calculates and manages user data and how this information relates to the advertising business. Paxton's office said twitter must respond to its request by June 27. "Texans rely on Twitter's public statements, which claim that almost all its users are real people," said Paxton, a Republican. "This is not only related to ordinary Twitter users, but also related to Texas enterprises and advertisers who use Twitter to make a living."
Paxton has clashed with Twitter in the past. Last month, a federal appeals court ruled that Texas could now enforce a law prohibiting the largest social media platforms on the Internet, including twitter, from suppressing users' content based on their views. Paxton responded to the ruling on twitter, saying he supported the law and that the fifth circuit "made the right decision".
On the same day, Elon Musk threatened to terminate his acquisition of twitter. In his letter, he accused the company of failing to provide data on twitter spam and the number of false accounts as required by him, in violation of the agreement reached between the two sides. Twitter responded that it would continue to share information with musk.