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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by that_guy_iain on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:14PM (#32028176)
Not sure what your point is. I said misrepresentations is lawyer talk for lying…
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by dragonwriter on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:15PM (#32028222)
And “appears to have” is lawyer talk for “we don't know that this occurred and can't prove it and absolutely want to make clear that we will not be accountable for claiming it actually happened.”
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by that_guy_iain on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:53AM (#32034167)
It's lawyer talk for "We think it happened but we want wriggle room"
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by dragonwriter on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:42AM (#32035523)
It's also lawyer talk for “we’d like the recipient/reader of the document to think it happened, but we don't want accountability, e.g., in the case of a document intended to be made public, for defamation.”
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by tptacek on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:21PM (#32028312)
You said "in this context lying is fraud", and that's not the case, which is why lawyer talk for "fraud" is "fraud", not "lying".
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