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His analytics team have worked out there's little to no likely electoral impact in the next 2 days, and so the cash burn isn't justified. He'll wake it up again in 2 years time, if the bubble in angry memes hasn't exploded by then. Just in time to see if he can sweep up some young minds.

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Just like how Chris Poole sold 4chan to the Mossad, I think Elon's goal here is to just sell the CIA control over X. Profitability be damned.

It'll be popular forever now, not because of momentum or network effects, but because fake engagement and bot content will be blended in with genuine user generated content. People too easily forget that TikTok was a national security concern, and that there was almost certainly secret/sealed imperatives to build a comparable US platform with equivalent international outreach. Well, here you have it.

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