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If that's true, Saudi Arabia probably wouldn't have given him $22B of their dollars with no expectation of a Return on Investment. They have no horse in the "does Elon look foolish?" race.
Twitter is really big in SA so their king wanting extra controll of it makes sense.
Butchering a reporter in Istanbul worked for them but the backlash was likely a bit of an embarrassment to these monsters.
Kashodi was murdered over countering SA bots. Easier to have a controlling interest in the platform than to fight dissidents with dirty assassin tricks. Allah forbid granting some freedom to the press.
Its possible for them to have different interests. Its also possible for this to be the nucleation point that got things rolling without it really being the full cause.
Saudis? No interest in control over what was THE app to get world updates and news?
And a key tool in the Arab Spring uprisings
I didn't say that. I said they have no horse in the "does Elon look foolish race". My post is communicating that they very much have a horse in the "information control" race.