I'm loathe to invoke "4D Chess" but I can't help but think this may have been a tactical decision to either lower the price of Twitter before the purchase, or to impugn its reputation without actually buying the company.

My speculation: it was to make sure the data was pure when he uses it to train the Tesla Bot AI.

To lower the price that he set after choosing to not run his due diligence? It’s possible, sure, but not likely.

Could be a tool for renegotiation, but then again I know very little about these kind of high stakes corporate acquisitions.