The question is WHY not how. how is through farming ...using "dead" cellphones that aren't assigned to an actual person but a system that they use to manipulate things like voting, opinion mirroring , and follower count. If this is true and out of 100 say 40 are bots..that small sample could mean that 40% of ALL twitter users are fake and are just phones in rooms. Since the chinese mfg these it'd be minimal cost to them to mfg an extra say 10 million accounts and sway social conversation, normalcies, drive policy "chatter" and get the 60% to believe that they're reading thoughts, ideas, and expressions .. I believe Musk's message here is that Twitter , KNOWING that most of their "users" are just bots ONLY test 100 accounts. If I had to guess I'd say that it's the same 95 time after time and then 5 randoms. From that they derive their data....knowing that it's flawed and faulty in it's methodology. As far as the bid goes, the bid was made on an evaluation. If that evaluation can be PROVEN to be deliberately false, then Elon would destroy the credibility of Twitter / all Social media even ...AND get him out of that ONE BILLION dollar clause that's in place if either party back out of their handshake deal.