Elon Musk bought Twitter for $12 billion and has been trying to turn it into a free speech absolutist. He's fired lots of people, made various ultimatums along the lines of, you know, if you're not in it to win it, you have to be out by noon tomorrow. The interest alone on that debt amounts to about a billion dollars a year. And Twitter lost 221 million dollars in 2021. So it's a math problem without a solution as to how Twitter is going to survive"
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