[jsanford9292]

Looks like (b) is the answer. They released this tweet on Aug 7, 2019 (the next day after announcing they were targeting an LSE-listed company):

https://twitter.com/muddywatersre/status/1159009866020618241

Pretty amazing that they went through and took a look at all the companies whose stock prices dropped from Aug 6-7th on LSE as a sort of "business development" opportunity.

[hn_throwaway_99]

Thank you! So in my opinion that is even more impressive, and actually somewhat hilarious. They sent out the tweet which was about prepping to short Burford Capital (which apparently had such non-existent governance as the CEO is married to the CFO), then the NMC traders all went "Oh shit, he must be talking about us!!"

It's like the old trope where the accuser says to a group of people "I know what you did!", and then everyone in the group confesses to various misdeeds even though the accuser was only talking about one of them.