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There's no evidence they lied. Why should we assume it, because Musk wants to back-out on his offer?
by jonny_eh 4y ago
There's no evidence they lied. Why should we assume it, because Musk wants to back-out on his offer?
- eric_cc 4y ago> There's no evidence they lied. Why should we assume it, because Musk wants to back-out on his offer? Why should we trust that they are being honest?
- ForHackernews 4y ago> SEC filings and they are a publicly traded company. If there is a cause of action, it already exists
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoBecause if you want to back out of a contract on the basis that someone lied, you need actual evidence that they lied, not just a lack of evidence that they were honest.
- kcplate 4y agoWhat is known—as an organization Twitter hasn’t always been forthright with the public regarding their practices (shadow banning, uneven application of rules regarding account suspensions). In some cases these may have been bad actors within the organization acting outside of the management’s knowledge, or even tuned algorithms towards certain topic preferences that have a more aggressive effect—but when discovered, the company does tends to deny and then quietly work to rectify the problem internally. So did they lie about the bots? Who knows? Do they always tell the truth? Well, I think you could reasonably argue not quite.