The prediction was conditional on Google seeking to acquire Twitter instead of Elon Musk in 2022. In reality, Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer on April 25, 2022, and the acquisition was completed on October 27, 2022, with no competing takeover bid from Google or Alphabet reported during that period. (techcrunch.com)

Analysts at the time merely speculated that companies such as Disney, Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, or Verizon might make a rival bid if Musk’s deal fell apart, but there is no record that Google actually made an offer for Twitter. (fortune.com) Because Google never formally sought to acquire Twitter, the Biden administration and FTC Chair Lina Khan were never put in the situation described, so we cannot observe whether they would have “put Lina Khan on pause” to allow such a deal.

Since the key triggering condition (a real Google–Twitter acquisition attempt in 2022) did not occur, the claim about how the administration would have behaved remains counterfactual. Enough time has passed to know the events of 2022, but the hypothesis itself cannot be tested against reality, so the correct classification is ambiguous.