[Doddler]

It's pretty bold of him to claim they were trying to make themselves more appealing for an aquisition or merger when nearly every action Twitter took was to try to stop Elon from buying them, only relenting when he made an offer so preposterous that they had no choice but to negotiate or risk a lawsuit from their shareholders.

[parineum]

They can lie to make the company more valuable to a buyer and also not want that buyer to be Musk.