Why did Elon Musk buy twitter instead of just starting his own social media business?

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Because his bosses, the DOD and CIA, are already well integrated into Twitter, so it makes surveillance and public opinion forming much easier when everybody's on the same platform. Letting Twitter die would mean many separate platforms...