((They)) told him to buy twitter, when Twitter stock was failing, telling ((They))'d fund it (he believed them)
He announced it, price rose (manipulated by ((them))) astronomically, in billions
Elon tried to back out of the deal (but couldn't, somebody forced him): he had to go get dozens of billions in cash for loan under unfavourable conditions (partly from ((them)))
He turned Twitter into X, started clearing it, ((THEY)) pulled advertising and started blackballing X, so X started haemorrhaging money, Musk saw that he would not be able to pay back the loans in time
Musk went on Offensive, got angry with Disney and others of ((They)) calling ((them out)), letting criticism about ((them)) come to the platform
He tried monetizing X, but it all failed, as planned by ((them))
Time to pay back the loan for buying Twitter, he had no money, he had to go back to ((Them)) as they control the money
((They)) said: ok, give us the Twitter feed to train our AI, we'll give you money, we'll build "you" a huge multibillion dollar AI server location, but we'll run it, own it and use the data (you get the money, you can pay back the loans to ((us)))
Musk starts doing censorship about ((them)) on X, mainly concentrating first on the biggest/most followed/network influencer node accounts, kicking off premium accounts, followers, etc. in December (i.e. "cleaning house") as controlled / told by ((them)) (this after the
December deal with ((BlackRock)) and ((a16z)))
Now: X content goes to ((them)), X Grok AI controlled by the funders of xAI ((them)), X censorship controlled by ((them)).
Musk is a lifetime actor, but he also seems to have his own "stash" of money to play with, but he's clearly not in control. At least not on X, not anymore.
As always, this is a hypothesis. Time will show whether it was directionally accurate or not.
I think the deal was something like this:
((They)) told him to buy twitter, when Twitter stock was failing, telling ((They))'d fund it (he believed them)
He announced it, price rose (manipulated by ((them))) astronomically, in billions
Elon tried to back out of the deal (but couldn't, somebody forced him): he had to go get dozens of billions in cash for loan under unfavourable conditions (partly from ((them)))
He turned Twitter into X, started clearing it, ((THEY)) pulled advertising and started blackballing X, so X started haemorrhaging money, Musk saw that he would not be able to pay back the loans in time
Musk went on Offensive, got angry with Disney and others of ((They)) calling ((them out)), letting criticism about ((them)) come to the platform
He tried monetizing X, but it all failed, as planned by ((them))
Time to pay back the loan for buying Twitter, he had no money, he had to go back to ((Them)) as they control the money
((They)) said: ok, give us the Twitter feed to train our AI, we'll give you money, we'll build "you" a huge multibillion dollar AI server location, but we'll run it, own it and use the data (you get the money, you can pay back the loans to ((us)))
Musk starts doing censorship about ((them)) on X, mainly concentrating first on the biggest/most followed/network influencer node accounts, kicking off premium accounts, followers, etc. in December (i.e. "cleaning house") as controlled / told by ((them)) (this after the December deal with ((BlackRock)) and ((a16z)))
Now: X content goes to ((them)), X Grok AI controlled by the funders of xAI ((them)), X censorship controlled by ((them)).
Musk is a lifetime actor, but he also seems to have his own "stash" of money to play with, but he's clearly not in control. At least not on X, not anymore.
As always, this is a hypothesis. Time will show whether it was directionally accurate or not.