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I think both parties are overvalued, moreso Twitter. I do think it is hilarious, because now people are contemplating how fake that world is truly. Hollow and bot filled. Conglomerations of power seem to portend an eventual tipping of any system, this could be 'good or bad' depending on what you hope for....

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Companies pay for advertising on these platforms based on traffic. If those numbers are phony they are being overcharged. If the levels are in contracts, then it becomes fraud.

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Musk is being cagy. He wants to get the old guard to incriminate themselves for filing false reports with the SEC. That way he "must remove them" for fraud (without golden parachutes). Moreover, they become unemployable in any publicly traded company. Elon has them on the slow boil. Grab your popcorn, it's going to get exciting.

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I'm with you on this. Don't you just love it? This is going to make for a very exciting and fun summer.

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It will be more exciting when Musks networks are embedded in your arm or your cells, involuntarily or voluntarily. I do not trust a guy who wastes that much money and shoots cars into space for fun. Guess I am just old fashioned.

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I trust him more than anyone in the Biden administration.

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Musk has never been his own man online, so his offer to buy was likely genuine or a move to expose the rampant fraud. Twitter will never a hollowed out bird carcass because they'll be a lawsuit target of overcharged advertisers and political censorship victims (huge liabilities for a prospective buyer to consider). The true nature of Twitter's fraud and censorship were exposed by this drama, and it will cost. During this bid, Twitter was desperate to increase user engagement by uncensoring accounts, so verboten much information was shared about topics like coof, the stroke poke, Ukraine and WHO. Twitter will be bought (by someone) for peanuts or die on the vine. Maybe this was always Musk's goal.

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It's brilliant of Musk. He is forcing Twitter to expose itself. The stock price is going to tank and Musk may lose a lot of money on his 9% stake but he won't miss it and in the long run it'll be good for all. If he is correct that there are significantly more phony accounts than the <5% Twitter claims expect others to jump on with lawsuits over fraud. A lot of pension funds, including Florida, have stock in Twitter. DeSantis isn't going to sit by as Florida's pension funds have been defrauded. Those SEC filings, if the fake Twitter accounts are substantially higher than 5%, would have been fraudulent as well.

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You think wisely. See my similar comment above.

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I am so complimented. I have never been described as thinking wisely. Gosh, Substack is so good for my ego. Thank you.

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I wonder if this will tank Twitter completely

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Biden’s amendment to WHO is a treasonous act and must be stopped. Our weak GOP leaders are too worried about money for midterms, but if this vote in Geneva passes, sovereignty by WHO goes into effect in Nov. Their majority leadership won’t matter. This has Obama’s fingerprints all over it. His plan to transform America will happen with puppet Biden getting blamed. Biden not smart enough to add the amendment that will control 104+ countries. Obama and WEF leaders are setting this up for global takeover.

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Your last part is the most concerning to me--the real news is getting buried.

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Elon's strategy here can take Twitter DOWN. He's exposed them to serious lawsuits from investors and advertisers, which could well sink the company completely. Not buying Twitter due to their fraud (about the % of "users" who are FAKE), was possibly a far better strategy than buying it outright.

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