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The social media platform X has lost 71% of its value since it was bought by Elon Musk, according to the mutual fund Fidelity.

Fidelity, which owns a stake in X Holdings, said in a disclosure obtained by Axios that it had marked down the value of its shares by 71.5% since Musk’s purchase.

Musk acquired Twitter for $44bn in October 2022 and renamed the platform X in July 2023. Fidelity’s estimate would place the value of X at about $12.5bn.

The number of monthly users of X dropped by 15% in the first year since Musk’s takeover amid concerns over a rise in hate speech on the platform.

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's value is for pushing propaganda there is a reason the Saudis gave musk money

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's only a value if someone wants to actually pay for it. The Saudis lend the money at a high interest rate.
Maybe it has value to them to just get it shut down? But why would that be worth 22 Billion plus a long term intensive engagement that threatens to hurt his other businesses too to Musk?
Musk is an idiot Nazi who wants a dictator to rule USA, because a dictator is inherently corrupt, so Musk can easier influence a dictator than a democracy. I sure hope USA doesn't give Musk that victory.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

well Musk is pro Trump isn't he? didn't trump sign a most lucrative weapons deal with the Saudis?

a few billion is nothing to the saudis in exchange to controlling a narrative over a huge number of easy to manipulate people

they will have splashed about 10x 22 billion just on a world cup to do a bit of sport washing of their image.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

a few billion is nothing to the saudis

No amount of money is anything to the saudis. They don't have wealth, they have a literal spigot that pours out as much money as they want whenever they want it.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Haha, yes I can imagine this go wrong and they'll say, My bad that went exactly as we expected! Ups I mean not as expected. lol