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Maverick's Machinations: Musk, No Longer Twitter's Largest Shareholder, Gets Shot Down By Saudi Arabia's KHC; Will He Succeed In His Bid?
Swararjyamag ^ | 04 15 2022 | Staff

Posted on 04/14/2022 9:42:59 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Vanguard group, an asset management company, becomes largest shareholder of Twitter, according to latest SEC data.

Musk's bid gets rejected by Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Company (KHC). They own a 5.2 per cent stake.

Musk responds to Saudi Arabia's KHC by asking how much Saudi Arabia owns directly and indirectly, plus enquires about their views on freedom.

SNIP

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KEYWORDS: elonmusk; freespeech; musk; robertreich; saudiarabia; twitter; vanguardgroup
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To: SaveFerris

The Saudis are heavily invested in exporting Wahhabism and by extension “fundamental” Islam whose twits are not banned under the current regime. Under Musk, they might be banned, since they advocate death and violence. The Saudis cannot risk losing that “voice”.


61 posted on 04/15/2022 3:44:09 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: yesthatjallen

62 posted on 04/15/2022 3:45:18 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Tucker39; Bob434

We all have our moments. Even Yoda, trying to say “Twitter Great, Again Make. TGMA. D’Oh!”


63 posted on 04/15/2022 3:57:34 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Pelham

Is it true that a substantial percentage of Twitter traffic (+-30%) is from bots?


64 posted on 04/15/2022 4:12:36 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Bratch

Wow! If true it would shake the foundations of the world. The US government propaganda machine - Twitter! Shades of Nazi Germany!

Let me ask you, is it true that Twitter has a substantial percentage of their traffic being created by bots?


65 posted on 04/15/2022 4:19:12 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: caww

Power is eventually wealth and profit.


66 posted on 04/15/2022 4:22:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Trannies be wack." - Gays)
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To: RoosterRedux; Bratch

I would add that the entity does not have to be the US Govt., but any Govt. with lots of money. Like China


67 posted on 04/15/2022 4:29:22 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Yo-Yo

Somebody get him a soda 🥤!


68 posted on 04/15/2022 4:31:52 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: yesthatjallen

Vanguard...

Gee, they’re the largest Disney institutional shareholder, aren’t they...


69 posted on 04/15/2022 4:33:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: PIF
It's most likely the NSA and all Twitter activity is stored in the Utah facility below. The NSA isn't going to let China run this operation.


70 posted on 04/15/2022 4:46:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: PIF
Obviously, I am still in caffeine deficit.;-)

Here's how punctuation, etc. improves my comment.

It's most likely the NSA. [A]nd all Twitter activity is stored in the Utah facility below. The NSA isn't going to let China run Twitter this operation.

71 posted on 04/15/2022 4:52:06 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: FreedomPoster

Please Gab is an haven for ant semites and should be shut down!


72 posted on 04/15/2022 5:01:06 AM PDT by Striperman (Striperman)
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To: Boomer
FR, GAB, and MeWe are the only functioning real free speech social media sites of any consequence right now.

FR? As in FreeRepublic? This site is NOT free speech. It’s a platform for conservative speech. And that’s ok. That’s totally ok.

It isn’t free speech though. See how long a leftist can last before they’re banned.

Unless FR means some other platform.
73 posted on 04/15/2022 5:03:30 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Bratch

Bookmark


74 posted on 04/15/2022 5:30:38 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: Striperman

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

- Voltaire


75 posted on 04/15/2022 5:36:51 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: logi_cal869

Buying out Truth Social and making it bigger than Twit would please me.


Vanguard and Blackrock pump up liberal big tech corporations. Check out how much they own of Facebook, Amazon, Disney, etc.

Where does Vanguard and Blackrock get most their money? They get a lot of their cheap money to prop up those companies from the fed. In other words, they have to play to their masters.


76 posted on 04/15/2022 6:04:45 AM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott

Preaching to the choir, my FRiend.

Musk seems keen to push billions with a purpose; the coming days may prove entertaining.


77 posted on 04/15/2022 6:06:41 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

Just turn Truth Social on for android already. Sheesh.

They should have done that before Apple IMO.

I fear it may have missed the opportunity now that all this is going on with twitter...especially if Musk is successful.


78 posted on 04/15/2022 6:18:55 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: yesthatjallen

So, Vanguard now has a strong ally to make Twitter a more profitable company.

Musk, Vangard, KHC can now determine a more profitable Twitter future


79 posted on 04/15/2022 6:25:03 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: V_TWIN
Just turn Truth Social on for android already. Sheesh.

They haven't been able to make it work on Apple and you still want to see it on Android? As of this morning, I'm still 567,378.

80 posted on 04/15/2022 7:01:59 AM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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