Prediction: As part of the acquisition, there’ll be a due diligence, in which Elon Musk will audit the fake users. The audit will show Twitter users and engagement numbers are inflated with bots… by a lot. That will trigger a lawsuit on Twitter manipulating numbers for higher valuation. That’s a financial crime, and the SEC will be involved. The responsible for the inflated stock price will be sued, possibly arrested, for fraud (Jack, Parag, board of directors, CFO, other top execs, tech leads responsible for the manipulation algorithms). The audit will also reveal government involvement in directing those censoring actions (1st Amendment violation), illegal surveillance (4th Amendment violation), and electoral manipulation. Twitter stock will tank, and Elon may be entitled to a discount (write off). It might be cheap enough for DWAC to buy and incorporate the assets. Mostly my speculation, but I think a write off due to inflated numbers is likely.
Prediction: Elon will get a discount
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The official privacy documentation describes all of the ways they might potentially process direct messages, but reading them is not one of them. They are scanned for links which get shortened, for spam as a preventative measure (reporting to you if they find something) and they warn that any messages you send may be shared by the user on the other end. Direct messages are considered private and Twitter could be sued, and has been on occasion, if there's any potential for that privacy to have been violated.