My comment was not talking about Musk specifically, it was talking generally about the idea of trusting the seller, whether it be of a house or a company, that

My comment was not talking about Musk specifically, it was talking generally about the idea of trusting the seller, whether it be of a house or a company, that their numbers are indeed truth. It's one thing to buy a house for $100K and let the seller tell you that there is no problems, its another thing to buy a company for billions of dollars and let the seller tell you there are no problems. And as my comment explains, its fairly simple for the seller of a company to make up a bunch of fake traffic to bump up the sales price. It's nice to be able to do the research yourself, although a lot of companies don't like/want you doing this kind of investigation. The kind of investigation I am talking about is a deep dive via shell access to servers/routers in a thorough, true manner and can be performed by an independent auditing company like one of the big five accounting firms.