Nov 4, 2026, 4:01 PM@csilverman yea, I am counting the twitter money in this. I don’t think trump would have won without that tbh…
- Nov 4, 2026, 4:01 PM
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Chris Silverman 🌻csilverman@mastodon.socialNov 4, 2026, 4:13 PM@pcora Oh, interesting point. I do recall Musk acknowledging that he wasn't buying Twitter for business reasons; he claimed he was doing it out of some altruistic dedication to free speech.
Most of us recognized that as a joke, but if one defines "free speech" as "far-right propaganda bubble", then yeah, I guess $44B bought him two years to lay waste to the federal government.
I'm not sure what kind of ROI he saw on this, but I'm not a super business genius like Elon Musk is so what do I know.