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I think this is almost exactly backward: the flagrant, constant spammers using his name and picture, which is absolutely trivial for Twitter to prevent, have been dogging his mentions in great numbers for years.

It eventually pissed him off enough that he figured that buying the company was the only way to solve the problem.

He might be right about that.

The level of reply spam on Twitter is irrelevant to the legal status of the merger agreement.

Relevant: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/25/if-someone-is-prattling-...

But the prominence of the issue is. Wheel out a "whistle-blower" or two and Bob's your Uncle.

Forgive me, there are enough cultish Elon worshippers around that I can easily give credence to this theory. In fact, on the balance of probability (given the fanatics and Musks powers), I would say it is actually the most reasonable explanation.

It's really not about Elon Musk cultism. It's about the fact that he was right to question how many Twitter accounts were bots/spam. This is Musk's vindication.

This has been going on far longer than any of his financial entanglement with Twitter, unfortunately.

He waived due diligence, so too bad for him.