I buy the take that a goal of buying Twitter was to stop progressive movements that were organizing there.

These movements were and are changing the world for the better.

The fediverse needs to be built to be their forever home: a place to join together across borders to make the world better for everyone, with equal opportunities for all.

I still, despite everything, after all this time, believe this is the promise of the internet.

@ben I had the same thought myself, but I'm not fully sure. He seemed really hesitant for a while, and it may be that Jack Dorsey just sweet-talked Elon Musk into buying Twitter for way too much. But I'm a little surprised that very few journalistic media have looked into the funding of the deal.
@ben could be that the funding he got in place had the intention to break the site. How else would there be no protests when he burned 44 billion USD?