This take of "Elon will do a lot worse things with the data" is my own personal take on WHY Musk bought Twitter. He's of a libertarian bent, so it could well b

This take of "Elon will do a lot worse things with the data" is my own personal take on WHY Musk bought Twitter. He's of a libertarian bent, so it could well be a real part of the story that he wants more free speech, and less censorship of similar folks. However, I do believe he is playing that up to try and avoid any discussion of the monumental tranche of data he is sitting on top of and the potential value of it. I recall in the early days, the entire Twitter database was made available to researchers, who found they could predict overall market movement (up, down, some basic idea how much) about 3 days ahead of time by looking at sentiment trends. All of that is worth "Take over the World" kind of money, where as the free speech stuff is, well. Worth percentage points at best.