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by mrex 1399 days ago
Some options that shareholders would have in the situation where investors were knowingly deceived by false disclosures of a publicly traded company are missing from this response.
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Namely, the ability for shareholders to sue Twitter.
Their disclosures are similar to this: we check for bots, use a process, the process could be wrong.
Mudge alleges that their disclosures were a less than good faith attempt to gauge the figure.

Mudge also raises a number of allegations not pertaining to bots, including that Twitter has deliberately failed to abide by the terms of a federal consent decree. If proven out, that fact alone would constitute material adverse affect.