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Political favor for who?
by HumblyTossed 3y ago
Political favor for who?
- FreshStart 3y agoPeter
- kalupa 3y agoPointing out the obvious, Thiel, just in case folks don't know of the long relationship these two have had
- HumblyTossed 3y agoOkay, interesting. To what end? What does Peter want?
- coldpie 3y agoIt's a little bit outlandish, but the most plausible theory I've heard is the Saudis were happy to spend the cash[1] to try to hinder future Arab Spring style events, which were organized largely on Twitter. US banks have a similar motive, it's not hard to draw the line that they would see disrupting low-level leftist activist communication networks on Twitter as valuable. Under that theory, Musk isn't so much doing a favor as being a useful idiot. [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/10/28/how-elon-musk-financed-his-twitter-takeover https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/10/28/how-elon-musk-f...
- FormerBandmate 3y agoThe Saudis were already the top shareholder in Twitter before Elon’s purchase. They were adamantly against it until he let them roll over their stake into X