Is the point really to be profitable? Or could perhaps its owners be willing to risk losing money for more power over the information landscape?
Elon Musk is using twitter to create a global far-right platform that right-wing politicians can use to experiment with talking points before watering them down and bringing them to the public.
So I don't think experimentation is an angle.
Media does report on far-right output on twitter sometimes, but not often. And when they do, it often boosts the message instead.
It's the same mechanism as how Donald Trump originally got elected.
...and at the same time, they are focus-testing extremist messaging.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
The purpose was to underline that catering to the far-right and providing them with a space try out messaging is not a very hidden aspect of X.
I didn't mean to imply that you don't think in general.