I think this is the saddest part, at least for him. Before Twitter, a lot of people thought he was relatively intelligent to be a part of a groundbreaking electric car company, a crazy tunnel digging company, and wild space vehicle company doing innovative things. Now since Twitter, we see an insanely rich narcissistic meglomaniac that was kept out of most Tesla big decisions as he just wanted the publicity for himself, the tunnel digging company was nothing more than a way to interfere with green projects, SpaceX did the same thing as Tesla and succeeded despite Musk's involvement, and a once respected medium of open communication worth a reported $44 billion dollars devolve into a cess pool of bigotry and arbitrary restrictions. Whatever good will he built for himself over the years that saw him even get a cameo in a Marvel movie next to Tony Stark, he's burned through most of it in the eyes of a lot of people.

Buying Twitter was just him getting a fleshlight for his ego.

Well his mum says he is so it must be true.

No thanks. I have standards.

Twitter was good?

My mom said you can't post mean messages about me anymore.

People need to stop with these conspiracies that it's some kind of 4d chess. We have a recorded history of Musk trying to get out of the deal with every excuse in the book. He only folded when his private communications becoming were being considered to become part of the legal process.

He ran his mouth, like he has done before with Tesla, except this time he got held accountable for it.

That's a good point I've been thinking for a while too. Elon even tried to interfere with the comm setups... Forgot the name of those now. But yeah he's a complete Russian tool.

Hell lets be honest here, I think many advertisers do sway more heavily conservative but the problem is advertisers want stability. Elon basically opened the flood gates to let anything go (as long as he agrees with them) and that created massive change at once. So you have to play the game of pandering to your audience who are likely going to be on the left just due to the left being a far more numerous group and no big advertiser would want an ad anywhere near a racial tirade. Like the higher ups of these corporations can and may be incredibly racist but you don't want your brand associated with it since you basically cut off a sizeable part of your market in the space you are trying to advertise. At the end of the day they want money and they don't want to rock the boat visibly.

"heavily liberal" citation required

You don’t buy a heavily liberal swayed network and flip it heavily conservative.

That was never the point. The point was that it would either change, or die from the $13bn debt the purchase saddled Twitter with.

• Musk paid $26 bn, underwritten by Tesla stock.
• $5 bn was from other investors, including a Saudi prince.
• $13 bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk's behalf.

The "heavy debt" that drives Twitter's cashflow into the negative is a direct result of the purchase.