They don't need it if they get Elon on board. But they won't. To get out the value he poured in, he will need to run it the way Murdoch runs Fox News, the WSJ,

They don't need it if they get Elon on board. But they won't. To get out the value he poured in, he will need to run it the way Murdoch runs Fox News, the WSJ, and lots else. Twitter is a bigger megaphone than even the Murdoch empire.