Elon Musk JUST got WhistleBLOWN!
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estate boy oh boy whistleblower just
threw a wrench into the elon musk versus
twitter deal let's give you a preview of
what's going on here so first of all we
know that elon musk agreed to purchase
twitter for fifty four dollars and
twenty cents of per share since then
elon musk has said that the acquisition
is on hold pending elon musk's review of
how many bots are actually on twitter
this has led the twitter share price to
fall to a current price of 39.86
it's down 7.32 today especially on these
whistleblower claims that came out today
which could actually support elon musk
winning in his lawsuit against twitter
to not
buy twitter see because even though elon
musk agreed to buy twitter for 54.20
he said that the deal was on hold
because he wants to review how many bots
there actually are because he doesn't
believe twitter's disclosure in their
sec filings that they're only five
percent bots now most people honestly
don't believe that there are only five
percent bots onto on the twitter
platform that there are probably a lot
more bots the problem with this is
twitter may not have actually had an
obligation to properly disclose how many
bots there truly were in fact on or in
this july 17 video i made i not only
showed this uh disclaimer that twitter
has in their sec filing which basically
says hey we think it represents fewer
than five percent of our monetized daily
active users that is we think
the bots are less than five percent of
our monetizable base which is a really
complicated metric where basically you
might carve out certain groups of people
and say well our monetizable users
which have way less bots are only five
percent bot heavy but everything else if
you include all users sure maybe we have
more bots but even this they qualify
with making this in making this
determination we applied significant
judgment so our estimate for false or
spam accounts may not accurately
represent the actual numbers uh and then
later in the video i talked about how
basically
elon musk
can't necessarily say that twitter was
fraudulently misrepresenting their bots
because twitter may not actually have
had an obligation
to prove how many bots there really are
on the platform and so what i did is i
made this analogy that if you are buying
a property a home let's say in real
estate and you're doing a home
inspection it's your obligation to
protect yourself and make sure the
plumbing's good it's not the seller's
obligation to go inspect the plumbing
for you and tell you if it's good now if
the seller knows it's broken they have a
duty to disclose it to you and if they
lie about it that would be bad and so
this is kind of where we've been
standing the last couple months since
this you know elon musk lawsuit has
broken up i've had this position that
what elon musk needs to find is fraud he
needs to find fraud at twitter
unfortunately i tweeted yesterday that
there is the possibility that elon musk
subpoenaing jack dorsey could
potentially be a sign that they're
having trouble finding evidence of fraud
in fact i tweeted a subpoena sent by
elon musk's team to jack dorsey might
imply elon's team hasn't yet found a
smoking gun of fraud that bodes well for
twitter again if elon can prove fraud he
will likely win however if he can't find
fraud elon will likely own twitter soon
and of course i quote tweeted my
original tweet which elon musk has
replied to twice where i said some say
elon musk has to buy twitter as is with
the bots because he quote waived his
rights to due diligence
wrong
section 10b5 twitter of the sec code
says that twitter can be liable for
omissions
of or misleading material facts waiving
due diligence does not mean you have to
accept a fraudulent disclosure so this
is just a fancy way of saying look if
twitter knew the bot numbers were wrong
and then they lied to elon elon has a
much higher likelihood of winning in the
legal battle
but elon musk needs evidence because
twitter likely has no obligation to say
yeah well this is how many bots we
actually think there are they could make
a very simple sample that could be a
very bad sample it could be poor
business and they could be a crappy
business but they never said that their
estimates had to be perfect and this is
basically what i roughly said in this
video here i'm going to play about 10
seconds of this and then i want to get
to the whistleblower listen to this from
july 19th could be wrong in fact it
probably is wrong but that doesn't make
it fraudulent that doesn't make it a
material adverse effect so this is where
elon again big uphill battle he'd
probably have to show that twitter knows
they were lying that's going to be tough
ho ho ho
enter oh hey soul blower
now
oh boy i want to temper your
expectations because it's still not a
slam dunk okay it is still not a slam
dunk but basically there's this dude
whom i'm going to call mr z okay so mr z
was the security lead senior executive
team responsible for information
security privacy physical security i.t
and twitter service blah blah blah
whatever he got canned okay this guy got
fired and he's pissed he got fired he's
not very happy he got fired okay fine so
now
this guy goes to the company called
whistleblower aid which is the same
company that represented the facebook
whistleblower when she testified before
congress coming out about all these
allegations about basically how facebook
knows that instagram is bad for teenage
girls and yet they kind of try to
bury that fact even though their own
research shows that they know instagram
and comparison photos can be bad for
girls and i'll tell you i look i'm not a
girl i don't identify as a girl but
there is a thing called the toxicity of
relativity uh i think there's a way
some president or some fancy person
previously said uh comparison is the
theft of joy something that effect
basically it all means the same thing
when you compare yourself you become
unhappy so be careful doing that but
anyway facebook had always researched i
got whistleblown by same company okay so
this guy is now
basically going to this law firm which
put together this crazy set of documents
and says the following that mr z alleges
that the ceo
explicitly told mr z to provide
documents which both of them knew would
be false and misleading regarding
security matters to the twitter board of
directors
now that's just the tip of the iceberg
and there are even more things in this
that we're not even going to talk about
in this video because this video is
going to be about the elon versus
twitter thing which we're going to talk
about and this goes deep but let's go
ahead and jump over to the twitter
versus elon stuff because this is where
it gets interesting and then we'll make
some conclusions about what this means
for elon's potential case
anyway take a look at this right here in
response to elon musk saying that the
twitter deal is temporary on temporarily
on hold pending details supporting
calculations that spam fake accounts do
indeed represent less than five percent
of users right here keep in mind elon
says users not monetizable daily active
users right the ceo replied first let me
state the obvious spam harms the
experience of for real people on twitter
and therefore can harm our business as
such we are strongly incentivized to
detect and remove as much spam as we
possibly can every single day anyone who
suggests otherwise is just wrong so the
ceo is responding to elon saying no no
no we
have a duty to get rid of the spam and
and we're all in on getting rid of spam
to this mr z comes out with the dirt he
says the ceo's tweet was a lie and that
the twitter executives are actually not
incentivized to detect or report total
spam in fact twitter has a proprietary
measure and it's an opaque metric of
users called monetizable daily active
users and this is defined as valid user
accounts that italicized might click
through ads and might actually buy a
product and from twitter's perspective
monetizable daily active users was an
improvement because it could internally
define the formula and thereby report
numbers which would reassure
shareholders and advertisers and
executive bonuses which could exceed 10
million dollars are tied to growing that
number so let me give you a very
simplified explanation of what that
could potentially look like so the first
thing we're going to do is we're going
to draw a heap of
smelly crap right here okay this heap of
smelly crap is twitter and what we're
gonna do here is we're gonna say this
portion or about 20 of it maybe even 25
of it is spam
what twitter is basically saying is hey
we might have this pile of heaping
stinky trash
but we're just going to grab a snapshot
right
here of our user base and we're going to
grab a snapshot of this stinky piley
you know
disgusting mess of trash and poop
and as long as that
middle blue thing which the blue thing
we're going to call monetizable daily
active users as long as that middle blue
thing
is getting
larger
we get paid more
even if the poop pile has now
potentially quadrupled in size and
there's spam everywhere around that poop
pile and only a little bit is in that
mdau which if you recall that mdau
letter or or acronym rather is exactly
what they purposefully put in their sec
filing they put that in the sec filing
because they say and here it is i'm
going to pull it up on screen again this
is from my older video they purposefully
use that mdau
acronym because that's where they could
just take the slice of people they want
and say hey well that slice is growing
yeah sure maybe all the other stinky
poop is growing but when you zoom in and
just look at this
that's reasonably only five percent
it's kind of ridiculous so anyway that
is this this this clarity that mr z
gives us here and he mentions that there
are millions of active active accounts
that are not counted in mdau either
because they are spam bots which now
makes that five percent number
artificially low or because twitter does
not believe they can monetize these
individuals
then mr z goes on to say that ignorance
was the norm among the executive
leadership team
in fact when mr z asked the head of site
integrity
what the underlying spam bot numbers
actually were their response was quote
oops that's a pile of poop we don't
really know the company could not even
provide an accurate upper bound to the
number of poop or spam bots on the
platform the site integrity team gave
three reasons for this failure one they
didn't know how to measure it two they
were buried under constant firefighting
and couldn't keep up with reacting to
bots and other platform abuse and number
three
senior management didn't really want to
know because as mr z learned from a
different sensitive source they were
concerned that if accurate measurements
became public
it would harm the valuation of the
company how interesting so in other
words
greedy executives worried that you know
we don't want to tell the truth about
how much poop we got on our platform
because damn that's going to hurt our
compensation now no freaking wonder when
elon says he's going to buy twitter all
of a sudden everyone's freaking out and
having group handhold therapy sessions
at twitter because there's some serious
lying going on now
mr z goes on to say that even the board
of directors understood the
counterproductive incentives in place
and in or around q3 2021 in a board risk
committee meeting a director asked why
more progress has not been made around
bots
our client remembers mr z remembers
an executive of the company admitting to
the board members that the company had
intentionally and knowingly
deprioritized platform health to focus
on growth and this is where mr z goes on
to say with his attorneys and keep in
mind that everything in this document is
an allegation and therefore could be
wrong and one-sided although we do have
twitter's response which i'm going to
read to you in just a moment
it is worth noting that mr z goes on to
say that twitter created this mdau
metric precisely to avoid having to
honestly answer the very questions mr
musk raised which now creates some very
interesting potential changes in the
twitter deal which i'm going to talk
about in just a moment but first let's
take a look at twitter's reply this is
the ceo of twitter replying there are
news reports claiming that twitter's
privacy security and data protection
practices were made by that were made by
mr z a former twitter executive who was
terminated for ineffective leadership
and poor performance uh and we are
reviewing the red acted claims that have
been published but what we've seen so
far is a false narrative that is riddled
with inconsistencies and inaccuracies
and presented without uh without proper
context
i know this is frustrating and confusing
to read given that mr z was accountable
for many aspects of this work that he is
now inaccurately portraying more than
six months after his termination but
none of this takes away from the
important work you have done and
continued to do to safeguard the privacy
and security of our customers in their
data this year alone we have
meaningfully accelerated our progress
through increased focus on the inc and
the incredible leadership from
other tweeter people
this work continues to be an important
priority for us and if you want to read
more about our approach you can find a
summary here given the spotlight on
twitter at the moment we can assume that
we will continue to see more headlines
in the coming day this will only make
our work harder i know that all of you
take a lot of pride in the work we do
together and
and the values that guide us we will
pursue all paths to defend our integrity
as a company and set the record straight
so in other words their response is yeah
yeah well well well that's wrong and
it's and it's riddled with with things
that that don't have the right context
okay
the context is
we lied because we wanted to get rich
anyway sorry okay all right so what now
is the impact to the potential lawsuit
well we don't actually have a
concrete smoking gun
yet
for elon musk but
this is an ally for elon musk this is
somebody that elon musk's team you can
bet is already on the phone with going
how much can we pay you for the evidence
we have or that you have rather so that
we can have it in our fight against
twitter because we need everything you
got because it sounds to me
like even mr z
as an executive
witness who worked at the company and
someone who is able to provide testimony
about how
the executives at twitter purposefully
orchestrated their numbers and their sec
filings purposefully for the purpose
that's a lot of purpose take a shot
every time i say okay maybe i don't but
anyway
to miss lead investors and people like
elon musk
hahaha
this story just got a whole lot more
complicated and all of a sudden we go
from uh okay like twitter's here and
elon's here and it's like elon you gotta
find some fraud like if you can't find
fraud like you're gonna have to buy the
thing you know uh and now it's kind of
like
oh
did we just equal the playing field a
little bit more
methinks so and me thinks that's why the
share price is down a little over seven
percent today
and as more of these facts and
disclosures come out
keep in mind this this is only page 12
out of 84.
we're gonna have some entertainment
ahead
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