Any legal or financial consequences would be funny, I’m not convinced he’s getting out scot free
Some ghouls and or bootlickers on LinkedIn are sharing posts about how :melon-musk: risked a billion dollars for all us common people to see how many bots there are on social media and that was the extent of his game here :michael-laugh:
Why does how many bots there are on Twitter matter tho. Why would that info concern people. Lmao.
I think there’s a pervasive suspicion of many people on the left, on the right, hell even and especially in the liberal ‘center’ that the big social media platforms are subject to insidious, manipulative control (from Intelligence Agencies, the Cultural-Marxists or the Russians respectively). Large, inconspicuous botnets are one plausible way that could happen - and indeed there’s little doubt that a sort of semi-parasitic grey-market industry has sprung up around these platforms, where you can buy organic-looking traffic to whatever piece of content and supposedly attract actual organic traffic through that. Spend money, get attention. However, it isn’t entirely clear how big of a deal overall this stuff really is - if it is a really big deal tho, people argue that it devalues the platform this is happening on, which is the reason for the muskoid line of argument we see today. Of course there’s no way of knowing for sure whether this is just a tactic to lowball the offer or whether it’s simply a way to wriggle out of the deal entirely or whether there’s some other motive behind it
