Just two days after the company was accused of fraud, Elon Musk challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a public debate over the percentage of bots on Twitter.

"Prove to the public that Twitter has less than 5% of fake or spam users," Musk said in a tweet monitored by Reuters.

I hereby challenge @paraga to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage.

Let him prove to the public that Twitter has <5% fake or spam daily users!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2022

The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX launched the challenge after responding to a topic in support of his legal case against the company from one of his followers.

"If Twitter simply shows its method of sampling 100 accounts and reveals how to make sure it's real, the deal should continue on the previous terms," ​​Musk said.

Then Musk began polling his followers, asking them if they thought fake accounts made up less than 5% of Twitter's daily user base. Users had two choices: "yes" and "no."

Twitter is unlikely to respond to this maneuver from Musk, and its case against the world's richest man will begin on October 17, and may take days to finish.

In the complaint it filed this week, Musk's legal team said an analysis of Botometer - a website that analyzes the number of "bots" circulating in systems - found the number of fake accounts much higher than the platform claims, which is less than 5%.

The company responded quickly, calling Musk's comments "factually inaccurate, legally insufficient and commercially irrelevant."

A few weeks ago, Musk publicly questioned Twitter's numbers, in a move many analysts see as an attempt to drive the tech giant's stock prices lower, and accused the platform of providing "misleading" data on the number of fake accounts.

Twitter shares fell following the announcement of the deal's failure.

It is noteworthy that Musk has focused since mid-May on Twitter’s alleged erroneous estimates of the number of bots and fake accounts using the service, announcing the suspension of the acquisition deal as a result.

In the document submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk's lawyers said that Twitter failed to provide Musk and his employees with the data necessary to verify their allegations about the fake accounts, saying that their failure to meet this breach of contract, and this allows Musk to abandon the deal.