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Elon Musk is planning a subtle change to Twitter that could make it harder to stop internet bots

Elon Musk is planning a subtle change to Twitter that could make it harder to

Elon Musk has said for months that he wants to weed out spam and fake Twitter accounts, but a subtle change he's planning to make to the platform could complicate that goal.

In a tweet this week, Musk said Twitter will stop displaying notations such as "Twitter for iPhone" and "Twitter Web App" at the end of tweets, which are meant to indicate where users' messages are coming from. . The change may seem small compared to many others, but it's a move that experts say could make it harder to detect inauthentic activity or web bots on the social network.

Musk announced the plan on Monday in a series of tweets in which he apologized for the 'slow platform'.