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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by threeseed on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:12PM (#34009432)
It doesn't need to be as conspiratorial as Musk being a foreign asset.

If Twitter took loans from interests either connected to or sympathetic to foreign governments e.g. Saudi Arabia, Russia then simply trying to keep them onboard could be enough to influence his decisions.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by shusaku on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:46PM (#34009817)
Ah yes, famously aligned Saudi Arabia and Russia. And anyways, neither of them care about someone tracking his private jet.
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by threeseed on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:53PM (#34009890)
They are both very much aligned on preferring Trump to Biden.

Or in having a Twitter that has more lax rules around what they can say.

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