Musk is an excellent strategist. When he says something in public it's because he wants people to React to what he said. It doesn't mean it's true. I'm not suggesting he 'lies' exactly, more than he uses his audience to manipulate the world around him to get him closer to his goals. His Twitter account is more PR than reality.

I have no doubt he had excellent reasons to buy Twitter, but what he says they are in public probably isn't the whole story.