Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around trying to manipulate the stock price and accidentally made an agreement he couldn’t back out of. He tried. He failed. He was forced to buy it according to the terms he previously specified.
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AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 1 week agoMusk bought twitter because he wanted free speech…
Ironic huh
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
singletona@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I hate my conspiricy theory minded family but if someone told me they had proof Musk expressly bought Twitter to get right wing power in America and used the buyer’s remorse stock price manipulation attempt gone south as a cover story?
I’d believe it.
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
- He’s dumber than you give him credit for
- What is the point of the supposed cover story? To cover from who, about what? He’s literally paying people to vote, again. Next to that, buying a social media to influence it almost sounds democratic.
The reason that conspiracy theory is appealing is the same for all conspiracy theories; it’s more comforting to think the powerful have a clever masterful evil plan than the sad reality that we’re all making it up as we go, even the literal Nazis.
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
Once you are there, start wondering if Trump is really that mad or if they are implementing an old Nixon plan.
merdaverse@lemmy.world 1 week ago
He did. Free speech for bigots that is.
Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, wanted to own a mechanism of free speech so he could control it.
YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not ironic when you realize it’s this but literally. He wants to own all speech.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nah, he wanted to modify what was being said. He blocked and oppressed views he didn’t like. It was never free speech. It was always oppression.
cortex7979@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t even think he new the possibilities of what he can do with Twitter before he bought it. He bought it and after that he needed something to do with this shit pile and found the solution in manipulation and illegal election donation
NewSocialWhoDis@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I think he had to enter into agreements about content in order to get financing from the Saudis and Russians.