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So the conspiracy is that Musk paid like 20+B and the Saudis paid another ~10B just to keep Trump out of prison?
And as if they didn't already subpoena that information before actually filing charges either. They were already investigating for months before Musk bought Twitter.
This is one of the dumber conspiracy theories I think I've ever seen. Why are we attributing some clever political maneuver to Musk when it's clear he just made an unprecedentedly stupid business decision?
The only "conspiracy" surrounding the Elon Twitter acquisition is his market manipulation strategies using social media.
This is just dumb as fuck, there's no way he even cares about Trump let alone enough to devote billions to it. Billionaires don't care about the president because they know their economic future rests in the Senate and potentially judicial branch.
Yeah, my belief is he was trying to manipulate his Tesla stock through the Twitter offer. He thought he could get out of it (because the SEC doesn't do jack shit and he always gets his way), but then when he realized this is (a big money play, where the other side actually has power too) different and thought well might as well buy the platform to make it more easy to manipulate the platform (making lemonade out of lemons).
Now he is starting to see that he is losing eyeballs and you can't use a social media platform for market manipulation if everybody leaves. So just a bunch of desperate attempts to try to trap people onto the platform, all backfiring worse than the precious idea.
That didn't fit with his limiting how many tweets users are able to view.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. He's an idiot with money.
The theory behind that is that Twitter failed to pay for their web-services and needed to suddenly cut traffic, otherwise they'd be shutdown by Amazon / Google.
After Twitter paid Amazon/Google, they raised the tweet view-limits appropriately, but the damage was already done.
I think the most logical explanation is that the Saudis paid Musk to kill it. Arab spring was organized on Twitter and a lot of Saudi dissidents were and are actively using it to expose and criticize their government.
Think about it, it makes perfect sense.
Err... Actually, let me rephrase that:
Don't think about it, it makes perfect sense.
They already got his DMs, what more could there be? Wouldn't it make sense to just encourage Trump to use Twitter, create a TruthSocial group or something and then just shout "free speech" and change absolutely nothing. Lol that might have actually been profitable, as the media would play along as they have no where else to go. All Trump has to do is win the next election and he is golden. He will be dead by the end, and if not he could just fly to retire to some country with a slow extradition policy... or probably most small countries realistically as they wouldn't want the political shit storm of dealing with complicated domestic-international politics