Twitter's Bot Issue Was a Transparent Pretext to Get Out of the Deal

The site didn't really make any money, certainly not enough to justify the price. But it had a lot of users that could be a base for Elon's future plans. He put out a press release saying that the first press release was we're doing the Twitter deal and we're going to fight the bots. And then two weeks later he says we're not the deal is off because we found out that there's bots.

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