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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by arinlen on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:07AM (#31411821)
> In the hypothetical where that's what he wanted to do, maybe he's hoping (or even knows based on conversations) that one or more of the companies that agreed to finance his debt will say "sorry not any more, now that Musk has tweeted about a bots problem"?

Again, that makes absolutely no sense at all. Elon Musk signed a contract that either forced him to execute te merger at the expense of tens of billions of dollars, or at best a no-questions-asked escape hatch at a price tag of a billion euros.

Does anyone remotely sane would ever risk losing that sort of cash just to peek at the number of active users of a social network?

Ridiculous.

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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by swores on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:47PM (#31414086)
a) I agree, that's why I clearly framed it as suspending my opinion and talking about the hypothetical situation that others have suggested

b) And yet... given the reported clause that he is only on the hook for the 1B if he pulls out, but not if he loses his loans, then the only way I see to make the hypothetical even slightly feasible is if he knew he could get the financing to fall through in a way that he then wouldn't be on the hook for the $1B.

But yes I agree it's a highly unlikely motivation.

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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by emteycz on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:04PM (#31414326)
Why would he care about 1/250 of his wealth so much if he sees huge benefit in exposing bots on Twitter, perhaps even financial benefit much greater than $1B?
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