Elon has no qualms about doing illegal trading stuff.

He can be quoted as saying, “I have no respect for the SEC.”

Do you think any branch of the US government has the competency to audit Twitter in such a way to uncover “algorithm tweaks” that promote his companies? My experience with auditors is that they barely know what cloud is let alone have to templates audit processes in place to investigate and know the exact changes that may have taken place to do such a thing.

Auditor: “I need to see your change log…”

Engineering manager: (prints commit history from GitHub to paper with diffs) “I started the process of extracting, it will cost $1,000,000 in paper and ink and take 17 months to complete. Alternatively I can requisition temporary credentials to GitHub from infosec by Friday. Then you can login and review these digitally.”

Auditor: “What’s GitHub? What’s a commit? How do I see the changes? What’s a diff? Who approved these? Why did they approve these? Eh, let me just choose 5 of these weird post things on this hubgitbucket thing at random and fill out this paper work so I can get out of this isolated freezing cold office and eat my shitty government salary bologna sandwich.”