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		prepend on April 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My take on Elon's offer for Twitter It’s hard for Twitter to know what is false so #2 is pretty hard. In this case it ended up being true but was many months afterwards until it was verified.

PaulDavisThe1st on April 16, 2022 [–]

They don't have to know if it is false. They have to know

1. it is unverified 2. if true, would have substantial impact

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