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Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
Musk's personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If that's true, Saudi Arabia probably wouldn't have given him $22B of their dollars with no expectation of a Return on Investment. They have no horse in the "does Elon look foolish?" race.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Twitter is really big in SA so their king wanting extra controll of it makes sense.

Butchering a reporter in Istanbul worked for them but the backlash was likely a bit of an embarrassment to these monsters.

Kashodi was murdered over countering SA bots. Easier to have a controlling interest in the platform than to fight dissidents with dirty assassin tricks. Allah forbid granting some freedom to the press.

[–] blargerer@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Its possible for them to have different interests. Its also possible for this to be the nucleation point that got things rolling without it really being the full cause.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Saudis? No interest in control over what was THE app to get world updates and news?

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 5 points 9 months ago

And a key tool in the Arab Spring uprisings

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

I didn't say that. I said they have no horse in the "does Elon look foolish race". My post is communicating that they very much have a horse in the "information control" race.