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X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information
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In doing so, he destroyed Twitter.
Which is exactly what was meant to happen, to either turn it into a tool of the right and foreign parties, or destroy it.
Remember, the first thing crackpot dictators did in the past decade, whenever there was an uprising, was to block Twitter from being accessed.
Every day I’m getting more and more convinced that demolishing Twitter was 100% intentional and part of the plan.
That requires there having been a plan to begin with. He desperately tried to get out of buying Twitter. Now he’s flailing but trying to act like he knows what he’s doing.
My guess is that it wasn’t Elon’s plan. The Saudis might want to take Twitter out of the picture to prevent another Arab spring from happening, and they found a way to do it through Elon.