Elon Musk and Twitter

[Whisper]

I have a conspiracy theory that I firmly believe in. Twitter was always a major platform used for the mobilization of Left Wing movements and protests in the US. In particular, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA+ movements, Pipeline Protests. Here's my theory: Elon Musk bought the platform to silence the political opposition (The Left). He did not buy the platform for primarily business reasons. Elon Musk fired the moderation staff which made it more favorable to far right reactionaries and their content.

[kFoyauextlH]

Is that a conspiracy theory? I think he has even basically admitted as much. I think people on "both sides" believe that was what Elon Musk was doing and did. Even if that is not popularly accepted, but I think that it is, I believe the purpose was political and to turn around a lot of the stuff that had been going on over Twitter too. So now there are two of us at least.

[atreestump]

I'll reply again here as I've removed the forum software I installed last night.

Musk acquired X because it gives him cloud capital.

[kFoyauextlH]

I tried posting again, it was pretty fast this time, it wiped out what I wrote, bit I have it saved elsewhere, and then I tried to post it again and it said that I already posted that, but it is nowhere to be seen, and won't let me repost it. I'll try posting it again after this or to edot it into one of the posts.

So it was Musk at the top of Jack's beanstalk!

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/musk-bought-twitter-to-get-cloud-capital-by-yanis-varoufakis-2022-11

https://www.afr.com/technology/twitter-is-elon-musk-s-entry-into-new-ruling-class-of-cloud-capitalism-20221127-p5c1ms

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musks-x-raises-almost-1-billion-in-new-equity-funding/articleshow/119221018.cms

Were there other ways to go about this without the political aspects people ended up claiming? Like was that part of it somehow and there was no other way?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2025/04/02/the-xai-x-deal-is-a-33-billion-windfall-for-elon-musk/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-markets-5-billion-040747124.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALLynZa1qLoxXFtrcR3H_UMrUqAkiHU8LXRjAUKyKSX0KQuUDSAr4j3_0283GMHe5nhFwLTAqRDZmdl0aB8msqLlNy0QluKyV3x9EB_sqesj6DwmQhwwMs-j9dwBGJ5u2DGGMDL9KTcJeEXQlxHik67zvKCXx3BwK7ilNGlPkHOt

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/musks-xai-buys-social-media-platform-x-45-billion-2025-03-28/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/x-now-valued-44-billion-170514898.html

Emocomics

https://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/ai/x-xai-sale-606273

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Elon Musk’s xAI Buys Social Media Platform X
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https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/elon-musk-x-raises-usd-1-billion-new-equity-funding-19576247.htm

https://www.deccanherald.com/business/morgan-stanley-markets-5-billion-for-elon-musk-owned-xai-in-loans-bonds-reports-3578725

www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DySH0ceMjQuc?feature=shared

https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1878353102866165766%3Flang%3Den

https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/machine-learning/article/55244139/the-colossus-ai-supercomputer-elon-musks-drive-toward-data-center-ai-technology-domination

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/elon-and-satya-together-again-microsoft-brings-musks-xai-models-to-azure-despite-openai-feud/

https://www.ft.com/content/74194702-29f0-407b-89a1-c5a4058d934e

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musks-xai-to-spend-10bn-on-oracle-ai-cloud-servers-report/

https://www.techerati.com/news-hub/investor-group-led-by-elon-musk-offers-nearly-100-billion-for-openai/

https://www.wired.com/story/musk-trump-feud-venture-capitalists-pick-sides/

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news-fast-news/microsoft-is-bringing-elon-musks-ai-models-to-its-cloud/

https://aichatguy.com/elon-musks-ai-company-x-ai/

[kFoyauextlH]

So it was Musk at the top of Jack's beanstalk!

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/musk-bought-twitter-to-get-cloud-capital-by-yanis-varoufakis-2022-11

https://www.afr.com/technology/twitter-is-elon-musk-s-entry-into-new-ruling-class-of-cloud-capitalism-20221127-p5c1ms

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musks-x-raises-almost-1-billion-in-new-equity-funding/articleshow/119221018.cms

Were there other ways to go about this without the political aspects people ended up claiming? Like was that part of it somehow and there was no other way?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2025/04/02/the-xai-x-deal-is-a-33-billion-windfall-for-elon-musk/

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-markets-5-billion-040747124.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALLynZa1qLoxXFtrcR3H_UMrUqAkiHU8LXRjAUKyKSX0KQuUDSAr4j3_0283GMHe5nhFwLTAqRDZmdl0aB8msqLlNy0QluKyV3x9EB_sqesj6DwmQhwwMs-j9dwBGJ5u2DGGMDL9KTcJeEXQlxHik67zvKCXx3BwK7ilNGlPkHOt

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/musks-xai-buys-social-media-platform-x-45-billion-2025-03-28/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/x-now-valued-44-billion-170514898.html

Emocomics

https://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/ai/x-xai-sale-606273

"
Elon Musk’s xAI Buys Social Media Platform X
"

https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/elon-musk-x-raises-usd-1-billion-new-equity-funding-19576247.htm

https://www.deccanherald.com/business/morgan-stanley-markets-5-billion-for-elon-musk-owned-xai-in-loans-bonds-reports-3578725

www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DySH0ceMjQuc?feature=shared

https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1878353102866165766%3Flang%3Den

https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/machine-learning/article/55244139/the-colossus-ai-supercomputer-elon-musks-drive-toward-data-center-ai-technology-domination

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/elon-and-satya-together-again-microsoft-brings-musks-xai-models-to-azure-despite-openai-feud/

https://www.ft.com/content/74194702-29f0-407b-89a1-c5a4058d934e

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musks-xai-to-spend-10bn-on-oracle-ai-cloud-servers-report/

https://www.techerati.com/news-hub/investor-group-led-by-elon-musk-offers-nearly-100-billion-for-openai/

https://www.wired.com/story/musk-trump-feud-venture-capitalists-pick-sides/

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news-fast-news/microsoft-is-bringing-elon-musks-ai-models-to-its-cloud/

https://aichatguy.com/elon-musks-ai-company-x-ai/

[Parrhesia]

It’s striking how quickly we’ve moved from “Did he do it for political reasons?” to “Of course he did — and also for cloud capital, AI leverage, media optics, and symbolic control.” Musk didn't just buy a website; he bought a lever. A platform that shapes discourse, sure, but also feeds data pipelines, LLMs, market power, and legacy-building. Like a megachurch with its own fiber optics.

I liked the “Jack’s beanstalk” comment — it fits. You start out thinking he’s just buying a bird app, and suddenly we’re at the top of a new social architecture, looking down at a forest of data farms, AIs, and ideology.

@Whisper, you nailed the root concern: Twitter had become a tool for mobilizing movements the establishment wasn’t comfortable with. Buying it neuters that while cloaking it in free speech branding. It’s not censorship by force — it’s control by infrastructure.

And @atreestump, “cloud capital” is the perfect term. This isn’t about tweets. It’s about building gravity wells that other systems orbit.

Appreciate the links too — slowly chewing through them.