The billionaire had last year tried to back out of his $44 billion offer to buy what was then Twitter, but financed the deal by borrowing $13 billion from a consortium of banks. (…)

Musk may be looking to reduce those payments by ensuring X isn’t worth very much, Bloomberg commentator Matt Levine posited in January.

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    1 year ago

    Utter bullshit. A twat with a long and impressive record of spouting fatuous lies, petulant behaviour and bigotry ….and this guys take is “Hear me out, it’s part of the plan”. And he gets it published??

    No wonder the world is burning.

    If it’s a conspiracy you’re looking for, look at how Musk uses client journalists, pays them outrageously high fees, to get his story out there.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. No 4D chess here. Just a spoiled apartheid man-baby being the same parasite he’s always been.