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Comment by abnry | Hacker News Reader

One of the things that would be fascinating to see come out is how the company was run. I truly wonder if some scandalous manipulations and collusion will come to light.

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It's going to be a privately owned company, I doubt that anything will "come to light". Since there is very little private companies are compelled to produce publicly, there's typically very little benefit from doing so voluntarily.

If new leadership takes over a publicly traded company, then it makes sense to reveal past failings so that investors can gain new found trust in the new leadership. But I don't see any reason that would benefit Musk in revealing anything damaging about the company, past or present.

It could be damaging to people who used to work for the company before Musk came in.

Some spies working at twitter was news https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

So wouldn't even surprise me much

These were random employees (including one head of media that found himself talking to prominent Saudi contacts requesting the blue check, and one site reliability engineer who ended up becoming CEO of some Saudi non-profit for his thousands of data inquires for the Saudis). The bigger problem with that story is how Twitter leaders brushed it under the rug and supposedly did not care to mention it while the news made rounds.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-former-twitter-employees-...

It's going from public to private. Everyone is gonna know a lot less.

Every company has some skeletons in the closet. But what would incentivize any new owner to reveal them?

In the new information economy, attention for any reason is good. Doesn't matter if its bad attention anymore, just get yourself trending and keep yourself there.

If the new owner became owner to get rid of the skeletons, that. I doubt Musk did it for purely financial reasons.

People have reported unusual fluctuations in follower numbers since yesterday:

https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1518953731961802752

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/151900201165147751...

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1518946715407106048

Would be really interesting to see explanations for this. I have a hard time believing that Twitter was consciously suppressing republican follower counts and inflating democratic ones, but I wonder if it could be something related to a sudden change in how they detect and ban bots, where bots happen to be used much more heavily by one political side than the other.

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