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  • Here’s a fun theory. This is one of Musk’s final steps towards knowingly destroying Twitter in a convoluted plan to help Trump by making the platform that had been hating on him the most and suppressing support of him the most after he’d been banned. Without the platform that Twitter provided Trump he wouldn’t have won in 2016. For 2024 he needs as powerful a platform and Trump probably feels he can have that platform with less censorship and more control of the opposition on Truth Social when the largest competitor is hamstrung. On the other hand, Musk may seem to have powerful incentives not to tank Twitter, namely due to the potential loss of revenue. But, one could justify this behaviour if you think about how much Musk may stand to gain from Trump tax policy if his efforts helping him get elected succeed. It seems the reduction in taxes to large earners like Musk may be more than enough to compensate for lost earning through Twitter. If that is the case, it seems reasonable to just let the platform die by a thousand mismanaged administrative cuts and weakening of the brand recognition so much that the whole enterprise just becomes basically crossed out in the mind of potential users… Who knows if this is true, but time will tell whether or not these potential motivations seem like reasonable explanations for Musk’s actions in retrospect.