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Presumably they would like to start a position by don't have sufficient information, and are attempting to buy that information.

Hidenburg is a short seller who takes positions in their research. See for instance their short of Nikola. While I'm sure they enjoy being helpful and that there's a reason they choose to engage in a very difficult way to earn a living, when there are easier opportunities available, their motives are hardly a mystery.

You can discount all their talk of helpfulness or assume they're just talking their book, and it doesn't really change anything.