Also for advertising, monetization, tracking, selling services to government agencies, and training their machine learning bots.
Not for your benefit, but for X's uses and benefits. You are the product and X wants to sell your info and attention so Elon can earn his money back.
Facebook was too. Hell, probably everyone does it.
What in the world makes you think that? Musk is pretty clearly against this government, and openly so - if he wants to sell services to government agencies, he's definitely on the wrong path.
Musk is a military and intelligence contractor. He makes bank on the government. Look at his actions, not his words.
Hah, owning Twitter, if was competent, he could've gotten a Rupert Murdoch level of kingmaker powers. Too bad his shrewedness is as great as his level of wit: thinking that dragging in a kitchen sink into the offices is a clever pun.
This is SpaceX's entire business model, at this point. He's definitely not against it if the money is right.
He wants to sell advertising. "Government advertising" is a thing in some countries, or so I hear.
Surveillance and protecting the homeland from threats is also something that some governments might pay for.