Spiker,

Have guessed!

american_defector,

Musk is a convenient idiot. He does things with a little push here and there.

burrp,

“Destroying twitter at the behest of the Saudis”… you wouldn’t happen to have a reference for a statement like that?

4am,
@4am@lemmy.world avatar

Probably this

A significant investment from The Kingdom Holding company itself, who previously had zero control over Twitter and who wouldn’t really like another Arab Spring to happen.

Of course there isn’t much more evidence than that, but what do they get out of the deal? Why would they be interested in throwing down that much? Did they really think Elon would turn a profit when the whole world could see the writing on the wall as this all went down?

Yeah, the theory they want to tank it is a bit tinfoil hat, but as conspiracies go it’s really not that far fetched.

They did chop a guy into pieces for his reporting on them and their business; is it really so far fetched to think they’d do something like this?

Artemis,

Yeah what does a Saudi prince want to do with a social platform run by a ‘free speech absolutist’? Especially to the tune of $2 billion dollars?

I’m sure it’s just a big coincidence that the site is turning into a fascist-sympathizing shithole

Corkyskog,

Weren’t the Saudis invested before hand?

This theory doesn’t make sense. Musk isn’t playing 5d chess. If Musk wanted to kill twitter there are 100 faster ways to do it, even if he wanted to be sneaky and not just directly shut it down.

It’s far more likely he was using the deal to sell TSLA without hurting the evaluation and then Musk caught the car.

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