“He might not have known it, but he surely suspected it.”
Actually, many in the industry could determine the bots were at least 40%. How? Simply matching the hit count to Internet traffic. EVERYTHING on the Internet is logged and traceable. There is no anonymity on the Internet, not even on FR.
Twitter has been claiming at least 40% more hits than the traffic to and from twitter suggest there should be.
That is clearly a case of fraud on Twitter’s behalf, so Musk will either buy them at half the price, or destroy them.