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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by pclmulqdq on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:29AM (#31154314)
I don't think you should be looking at this as a "solution" to any problems other than this: Elon Musk has built his net worth of $250 billion by saying things to people, and his primary bullhorn has been Twitter. Spending $43 billion to secure his access to the engine that got him to $250 billion is reasonable. Combine that with the fact that he can now put his thumb on the scale and get his tweets in front of more eyeballs, and that may increase TSLA enough to offset the cost of buying Twitter.

As usual for Musk, this is a business decision that is meant to benefit him that he is trying to sell as benefitting other people.

Edit - Musk's other companies, SpaceX, Boring, and Tesla, rely heavily on government subsidies and contracts. The access he gets to politicians by controlling their newsfeeds on the social network they pay attention to is also very valuable. Not valuable for Twitter, valuable for Musk.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by V__ on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:41AM (#31154495)
"Do you want your campaign to get more reach in your district? Let's talk about that tax-cut.."

It wouldn't surprise me...