> Surely the people doing an audit should be just as accurate no?

Yes they should. These are not auditors though. They have an axe to grind with confirmation bias driving the zealotry.

The plus side is that they are publishing information in real time so we can all judge it, which one could argue is an improvement over not publishing.

A counter argument would be that this is just to create the illusion of transparency, but I suspect they are not playing 5D chess.