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Give Canada statehood, buy Greenland, colonize Mars, and do all of these things under the leadership of a bunch of television personalities, the budgetary guidance of a guy who overpaid for Twitter by at least 25 billion and immediately devalued it, and the control of a geriatric, senial moron President. And the dude hasn't even gotten back in office yet. The Onion doesn't even stand a chance for the next 4 years.
Twitter wasn't bought for its economic value but as a propaganda machine and it turned out it was very effective.
Let's not pretend the that was his original intention or that any real forethought was put into it at all. It certainly worked out that way, but that doesn't discount the extreme stupidity, bravado and ineptitude that went into the Twitter purchase. It became a useful propaganda machine because of Elon, but that is different than crediting him for doing so intentionally.
Nailed it! Also, didn't the SEC basically force him to buy it after running his mouth off?
Yes. He tried to backpedal his offer.
It may not have been his plan, but given who funded him it’s not exactly a wild conspiracy.
I personally believe, especially due to the buyer and the backers of the purchase, that the entire intent behind the purchase was to destroy it so that the global elite could better control the narrative. The purchase of Twitter, and the going public of Reddit, both occurred when online networking and support for global protest was in full swing. A lot of those protests have been squashed since, with some help from not being able to easily coordinate and share globally as easily anymore. It worked, now that you’ve caught the car you were chasing, what do you do next? The very next step is to subvert it.
So, yeah. I do believe this was the next step after destroying the ability of the common person to network, protest, and allow progressive ideals to grow.
I believe he just wanted to take control of a popular public forum that had been recently banning (largely) conservative voices for things like dangerous covid misinformation, harassment, violent rhetoric/threats, etc. and he both didn't want to become the next victim of the ban hammer and wanted to return those far right voices and conspiracy theorists back to the forefront. He also clearly wanted to control the narrative about himself too.