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Seems to me he did it to avoid what would come out in the lawsuit.

What was so bad he was desperate enough to take on a $44B boondoggle of a purchase (he’s a bad fit, it wasn’t worth near that) to keep off the official record.

What did he do??? What would be that bad?

There were reports that he had deleted Signal messages, which could have led to significant sanctions if the deletions were made after discovery requests had been made.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/5/23389568/musk-twitter-sig...

One the one hand, it seems like a bad deal because people do that for free all the time.

On the other hand, $44 billion is nothing to the extremely wealthy. Money stops having any real value well before you have a net worth in the billions.

I disagree on your second point: $44B is a huge amount of money, even to Musk. If Twitter goes down, it likely drags down Tesla (or at least Musk's position as CEO) and his other companies as well.

Musk could lose like 99.99999 percent of his net worth and still never have to work a day for the rest of his life.

$44 billion is only like 25%. Even if he just lit the $44 billion on fire he would still be in like the top 100 richest humans to ever live.

The article never even says what the "alt-right conspiracy theory" is. Just that it the source is disreputable.

He RT'd a link to this article, saying “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.”

https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/31/opinion/the-awfu...

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