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Twitter To Rebrand As X (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (24 children)

There’s a woman over on Mastodon making the argument that he’s trying to destroy it so it can’t be used to organize left-leaning political action (fundraising, activism, issue messaging, etc) any longer. She makes a compelling argument.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I don't buy that. He tried to cancel the purchase. He's also losing money, and so it's definitely not a 3D chess.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't Twitter almost take him to court if he didn't follow through with the purchase? I think he got caught in his over investment in Twitter last year, and rather than go through a trial with discovery (I think he NEEDED to follow through to avoid this specifically), he decided to go through with the purchase. I wonder what the hell they would have found during a trial discovery that made him sink $44B.

But what he's doing now? I don't think it's related to that. I think it might be to help manipulate stocks, as we have seen him do several months back. Maybe he thinks that destroying left-leaning political action saves him in taxes? He destroyed public transportation in California just so people would theoretically purchase more Tesla cars. Nothing is beyond being trampled by Musk if he thinks he can benefit by stumbling over the other side of the corpse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t Twitter almost take him to court if he didn’t follow through with the purchase?