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Elon Musk JUST got WhistleBLOWN!

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august 26th is around the corner link's

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building your wealth especially real

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estate boy oh boy whistleblower just

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threw a wrench into the elon musk versus

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twitter deal let's give you a preview of

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what's going on here so first of all we

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know that elon musk agreed to purchase

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twitter for fifty four dollars and

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twenty cents of per share since then

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elon musk has said that the acquisition

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is on hold pending elon musk's review of

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how many bots are actually on twitter

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this has led the twitter share price to

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fall to a current price of 39.86

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it's down 7.32 today especially on these

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whistleblower claims that came out today

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which could actually support elon musk

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winning in his lawsuit against twitter

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to not

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buy twitter see because even though elon

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musk agreed to buy twitter for 54.20

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he said that the deal was on hold

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because he wants to review how many bots

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there actually are because he doesn't

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believe twitter's disclosure in their

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sec filings that they're only five

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percent bots now most people honestly

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don't believe that there are only five

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percent bots onto on the twitter

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platform that there are probably a lot

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more bots the problem with this is

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twitter may not have actually had an

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obligation to properly disclose how many

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bots there truly were in fact on or in

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this july 17 video i made i not only

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showed this uh disclaimer that twitter

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has in their sec filing which basically

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says hey we think it represents fewer

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than five percent of our monetized daily

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active users that is we think

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the bots are less than five percent of

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our monetizable base which is a really

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complicated metric where basically you

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might carve out certain groups of people

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and say well our monetizable users

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which have way less bots are only five

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percent bot heavy but everything else if

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you include all users sure maybe we have

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more bots but even this they qualify

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with making this in making this

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determination we applied significant

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judgment so our estimate for false or

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spam accounts may not accurately

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represent the actual numbers uh and then

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later in the video i talked about how

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basically

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elon musk

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can't necessarily say that twitter was

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fraudulently misrepresenting their bots

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because twitter may not actually have

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had an obligation

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to prove how many bots there really are

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on the platform and so what i did is i

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made this analogy that if you are buying

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a property a home let's say in real

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estate and you're doing a home

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inspection it's your obligation to

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protect yourself and make sure the

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plumbing's good it's not the seller's

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obligation to go inspect the plumbing

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for you and tell you if it's good now if

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the seller knows it's broken they have a

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duty to disclose it to you and if they

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lie about it that would be bad and so

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this is kind of where we've been

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standing the last couple months since

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this you know elon musk lawsuit has

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broken up i've had this position that

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what elon musk needs to find is fraud he

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needs to find fraud at twitter

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unfortunately i tweeted yesterday that

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there is the possibility that elon musk

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subpoenaing jack dorsey could

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potentially be a sign that they're

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having trouble finding evidence of fraud

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in fact i tweeted a subpoena sent by

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elon musk's team to jack dorsey might

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imply elon's team hasn't yet found a

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smoking gun of fraud that bodes well for

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twitter again if elon can prove fraud he

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will likely win however if he can't find

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fraud elon will likely own twitter soon

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and of course i quote tweeted my

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original tweet which elon musk has

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replied to twice where i said some say

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elon musk has to buy twitter as is with

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the bots because he quote waived his

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rights to due diligence

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wrong

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section 10b5 twitter of the sec code

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says that twitter can be liable for

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omissions

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of or misleading material facts waiving

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due diligence does not mean you have to

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accept a fraudulent disclosure so this

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is just a fancy way of saying look if

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twitter knew the bot numbers were wrong

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and then they lied to elon elon has a

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much higher likelihood of winning in the

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legal battle

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but elon musk needs evidence because

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twitter likely has no obligation to say

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yeah well this is how many bots we

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actually think there are they could make

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a very simple sample that could be a

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very bad sample it could be poor

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business and they could be a crappy

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business but they never said that their

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estimates had to be perfect and this is

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basically what i roughly said in this

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video here i'm going to play about 10

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seconds of this and then i want to get

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to the whistleblower listen to this from

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july 19th could be wrong in fact it

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probably is wrong but that doesn't make

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it fraudulent that doesn't make it a

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material adverse effect so this is where

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elon again big uphill battle he'd

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probably have to show that twitter knows

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they were lying that's going to be tough

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ho ho ho

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enter oh hey soul blower

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now

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oh boy i want to temper your

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expectations because it's still not a

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slam dunk okay it is still not a slam

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dunk but basically there's this dude

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whom i'm going to call mr z okay so mr z

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was the security lead senior executive

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team responsible for information

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security privacy physical security i.t

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and twitter service blah blah blah

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whatever he got canned okay this guy got

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fired and he's pissed he got fired he's

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not very happy he got fired okay fine so

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now

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this guy goes to the company called

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whistleblower aid which is the same

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company that represented the facebook

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whistleblower when she testified before

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congress coming out about all these

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allegations about basically how facebook

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knows that instagram is bad for teenage

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girls and yet they kind of try to

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bury that fact even though their own

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research shows that they know instagram

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and comparison photos can be bad for

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girls and i'll tell you i look i'm not a

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girl i don't identify as a girl but

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there is a thing called the toxicity of

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relativity uh i think there's a way

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some president or some fancy person

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previously said uh comparison is the

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theft of joy something that effect

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basically it all means the same thing

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when you compare yourself you become

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unhappy so be careful doing that but

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anyway facebook had always researched i

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got whistleblown by same company okay so

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this guy is now

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basically going to this law firm which

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put together this crazy set of documents

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and says the following that mr z alleges

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that the ceo

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explicitly told mr z to provide

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documents which both of them knew would

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be false and misleading regarding

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security matters to the twitter board of

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directors

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now that's just the tip of the iceberg

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and there are even more things in this

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that we're not even going to talk about

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in this video because this video is

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going to be about the elon versus

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twitter thing which we're going to talk

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about and this goes deep but let's go

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ahead and jump over to the twitter

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versus elon stuff because this is where

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it gets interesting and then we'll make

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some conclusions about what this means

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for elon's potential case

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anyway take a look at this right here in

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response to elon musk saying that the

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twitter deal is temporary on temporarily

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on hold pending details supporting

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calculations that spam fake accounts do

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indeed represent less than five percent

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of users right here keep in mind elon

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says users not monetizable daily active

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users right the ceo replied first let me

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state the obvious spam harms the

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experience of for real people on twitter

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and therefore can harm our business as

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such we are strongly incentivized to

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detect and remove as much spam as we

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possibly can every single day anyone who

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suggests otherwise is just wrong so the

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ceo is responding to elon saying no no

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no we

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have a duty to get rid of the spam and

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and we're all in on getting rid of spam

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to this mr z comes out with the dirt he

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says the ceo's tweet was a lie and that

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the twitter executives are actually not

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incentivized to detect or report total

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spam in fact twitter has a proprietary

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measure and it's an opaque metric of

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users called monetizable daily active

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users and this is defined as valid user

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accounts that italicized might click

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through ads and might actually buy a

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product and from twitter's perspective

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monetizable daily active users was an

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improvement because it could internally

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define the formula and thereby report

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numbers which would reassure

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shareholders and advertisers and

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executive bonuses which could exceed 10

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million dollars are tied to growing that

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number so let me give you a very

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simplified explanation of what that

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could potentially look like so the first

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thing we're going to do is we're going

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to draw a heap of

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smelly crap right here okay this heap of

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smelly crap is twitter and what we're

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gonna do here is we're gonna say this

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portion or about 20 of it maybe even 25

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of it is spam

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what twitter is basically saying is hey

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we might have this pile of heaping

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stinky trash

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but we're just going to grab a snapshot

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right

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here of our user base and we're going to

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grab a snapshot of this stinky piley

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you know

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disgusting mess of trash and poop

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and as long as that

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middle blue thing which the blue thing

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we're going to call monetizable daily

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active users as long as that middle blue

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thing

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is getting

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larger

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we get paid more

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even if the poop pile has now

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potentially quadrupled in size and

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there's spam everywhere around that poop

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pile and only a little bit is in that

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mdau which if you recall that mdau

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letter or or acronym rather is exactly

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what they purposefully put in their sec

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filing they put that in the sec filing

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because they say and here it is i'm

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going to pull it up on screen again this

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is from my older video they purposefully

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use that mdau

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acronym because that's where they could

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just take the slice of people they want

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and say hey well that slice is growing

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yeah sure maybe all the other stinky

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poop is growing but when you zoom in and

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just look at this

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that's reasonably only five percent

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it's kind of ridiculous so anyway that

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is this this this clarity that mr z

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gives us here and he mentions that there

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are millions of active active accounts

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that are not counted in mdau either

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because they are spam bots which now

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makes that five percent number

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artificially low or because twitter does

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not believe they can monetize these

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individuals

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then mr z goes on to say that ignorance

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was the norm among the executive

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leadership team

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in fact when mr z asked the head of site

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integrity

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what the underlying spam bot numbers

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actually were their response was quote

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oops that's a pile of poop we don't

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really know the company could not even

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provide an accurate upper bound to the

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number of poop or spam bots on the

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platform the site integrity team gave

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three reasons for this failure one they

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didn't know how to measure it two they

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were buried under constant firefighting

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and couldn't keep up with reacting to

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bots and other platform abuse and number

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three

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senior management didn't really want to

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know because as mr z learned from a

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different sensitive source they were

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concerned that if accurate measurements

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became public

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it would harm the valuation of the

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company how interesting so in other

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words

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greedy executives worried that you know

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we don't want to tell the truth about

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how much poop we got on our platform

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because damn that's going to hurt our

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compensation now no freaking wonder when

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elon says he's going to buy twitter all

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of a sudden everyone's freaking out and

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having group handhold therapy sessions

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at twitter because there's some serious

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lying going on now

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mr z goes on to say that even the board

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of directors understood the

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counterproductive incentives in place

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and in or around q3 2021 in a board risk

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committee meeting a director asked why

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more progress has not been made around

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bots

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our client remembers mr z remembers

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an executive of the company admitting to

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the board members that the company had

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intentionally and knowingly

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deprioritized platform health to focus

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on growth and this is where mr z goes on

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to say with his attorneys and keep in

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mind that everything in this document is

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an allegation and therefore could be

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wrong and one-sided although we do have

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twitter's response which i'm going to

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read to you in just a moment

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it is worth noting that mr z goes on to

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say that twitter created this mdau

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metric precisely to avoid having to

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honestly answer the very questions mr

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musk raised which now creates some very

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interesting potential changes in the

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twitter deal which i'm going to talk

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about in just a moment but first let's

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take a look at twitter's reply this is

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the ceo of twitter replying there are

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news reports claiming that twitter's

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privacy security and data protection

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practices were made by that were made by

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mr z a former twitter executive who was

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terminated for ineffective leadership

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and poor performance uh and we are

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reviewing the red acted claims that have

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been published but what we've seen so

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far is a false narrative that is riddled

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with inconsistencies and inaccuracies

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and presented without uh without proper

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context

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i know this is frustrating and confusing

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to read given that mr z was accountable

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for many aspects of this work that he is

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now inaccurately portraying more than

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six months after his termination but

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none of this takes away from the

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important work you have done and

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continued to do to safeguard the privacy

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and security of our customers in their

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data this year alone we have

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meaningfully accelerated our progress

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through increased focus on the inc and

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the incredible leadership from

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other tweeter people

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this work continues to be an important

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priority for us and if you want to read

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more about our approach you can find a

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summary here given the spotlight on

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twitter at the moment we can assume that

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we will continue to see more headlines

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in the coming day this will only make

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our work harder i know that all of you

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take a lot of pride in the work we do

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together and

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and the values that guide us we will

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pursue all paths to defend our integrity

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as a company and set the record straight

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so in other words their response is yeah

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yeah well well well that's wrong and

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it's and it's riddled with with things

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that that don't have the right context

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okay

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the context is

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we lied because we wanted to get rich

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anyway sorry okay all right so what now

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is the impact to the potential lawsuit

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well we don't actually have a

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concrete smoking gun

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yet

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for elon musk but

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this is an ally for elon musk this is

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somebody that elon musk's team you can

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bet is already on the phone with going

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how much can we pay you for the evidence

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we have or that you have rather so that

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we can have it in our fight against

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twitter because we need everything you

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got because it sounds to me

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like even mr z

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as an executive

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witness who worked at the company and

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someone who is able to provide testimony

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about how

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the executives at twitter purposefully

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orchestrated their numbers and their sec

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filings purposefully for the purpose

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that's a lot of purpose take a shot

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every time i say okay maybe i don't but

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anyway

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to miss lead investors and people like

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elon musk

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hahaha

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this story just got a whole lot more

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complicated and all of a sudden we go

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from uh okay like twitter's here and

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elon's here and it's like elon you gotta

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find some fraud like if you can't find

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fraud like you're gonna have to buy the

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thing you know uh and now it's kind of

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like

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oh

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did we just equal the playing field a

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little bit more

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methinks so and me thinks that's why the

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share price is down a little over seven

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percent today

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and as more of these facts and

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disclosures come out

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keep in mind this this is only page 12

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out of 84.

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we're gonna have some entertainment

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ahead

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