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

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You are right, it would be trivial to create another site, but not so trivial to make it the most used platform of that type. See Trump's Truth Social. He wasn't buying an app so much as he was buying a user base and an audience to influence. He wants a say over speech on what he views as the modern public square, so he bought the public square

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    Elon Musk literally looked at the world and decided the best thing he could do with 44 billion dollars was to make sure Nazi voices were being heard.

    That's a sophomoric argument. It's for free speech, and this is Saidit ffs, all of us have been kicked off mainstream platforms, well, except for your pansy line toeing card carrying shitlib, but that's in vogue with big tech rn.