Elon Musk appears to offer $1 million bounty to 'convict' those responsible for Twitter 'botnets'

• Elon Musk appeared to offer a $1 million bounty to help find the source of "botnets" on Twitter.
• A user identified a negative feedback loop in Twitter's algorithm that hurts accounts if blocked.
• One said botnets were controlling several accounts and mass-blocking other accounts to suppress them.

Elon Musk appeared to offer a $1 million bounty if the source of "botnets" purportedly targeting reputation scores could be identified after Twitter made some of its algorithms open-source Friday. 

Twitter released coding information that showed how it recommended tweets to followers on the For You feed.