My understanding is that the bot thing WAS addressed in the agreement. Twitter estimated some number of bots (~5% of accounts IIRC), and it is now being discovered that they either knew the number was much larger and lied (big trouble) or didn't have an accurate count of the bots (just incompetent).
Of course the whole bruhaha may be just a way to keep the merger in peoples minds, or made up by people that earn their living by the word.