Yeah, fair- a) agree that control of the pipes means control of the populace, consent can be manufactured, etc. That's pretty intuitive however I have not stud

Yeah, fair- a) agree that control of the pipes means control of the populace, consent can be manufactured, etc. That's pretty intuitive however I have not studied the mechanics of influence enough to have a sense of what can be done with Twitter and how effective it can be on a capital basis to judge whether it is worth the capital, and while the Saudis, eg have infinite money and are definitely opening new large scale influence fronts now (golf, etc)- the actual debt holders in twitter are banks with public balance sheets and they need to be paid. It seems like the min yearly operating budget for twitter as an influence service is $2B- that's real money b) agree completely that there are innumerable right wing outlets entirely unsustained by eg ads, but many operators like Murdoch, Sinclair, are extremely profitable. So I would think there is a hope/vision it can be both effective on the influence side and also profitable or at least economically balanced