[fzeroracer]

That's exactly the problem and why Musk is going to fail at his bid. You can't just claim someone is lying, you have to prove it.

Musk has zero way of proving Twitter is lying about its bot problems. In fact, their bot case is fairly ironclad because as others have mentioned, they've been reporting on it for years and it's been implicitly assumed to be true, incl. by Musk who mentioned it as part of the reason why he was buying Twitter.

In order to prove Twitter is lying, he would need to prove that the past few years of data is falsified, provide his own data and prove his data is more accurate than Twitter.

[Ensorceled]

I think it's worse than that for Musk.

He has to prove that they are lying AND the real number is a material change to the contract worthy of dismissing the contract.

By publicly stating that he thinks the bot problem is worse than they are saying AND that he is buying the company in part to fix the bot problem AND by waiving due diligence, Musk will have difficulty establishing that whatever new "bot number" he finds is actually a material change to the situation.