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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

He claims that paying helps eliminate bots, there's no way he truly believes that or he is dumber than given credit for. The entities that are interested in disinformation have deep pockets. Most of disinformation on Facebook was done by paying them.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Musk knows, he just wants to make money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why though? How is his life any different if he makes more money?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Because Twitter owes more in interest on the loans he took to buy it than it makes every month and he needs to dig himself out of a financial black hole.

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