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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.

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KEYWORDS: elonmusk; freespeech; musk; robertreich; saudiarabia; twitter; vanguardgroup
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To: Reno89519

Like I said, they shoulda started with Android....isn’t that the larger market?


81 posted on 04/15/2022 7:14:14 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: FreedomPoster

So in your opinion it is ok to critize jews, ever heard 0f the holocaust?


82 posted on 04/15/2022 7:24:44 AM PDT by Striperman (Striperman)
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To: Bratch

Thanks for posting. This is very interesting to those of us who don’t understand how these things work.


83 posted on 04/15/2022 7:28:30 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Boomer

How many active users does FR have? A lot of people that were here even two years ago got driven off.


84 posted on 04/15/2022 7:48:48 AM PDT by calenel (Tree of Liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Striperman

Yes and yes, if they act in ways that are against US interests.


85 posted on 04/15/2022 7:52:39 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

The pictures and depictions of Jews on Gab equals those of Nazi Germany, disgraceful. I cancelled my account shortly after joining Gab not realizing this was tolerated there, there should be no room for racists in the republican party or conservative movement, it is not in our best interest.


86 posted on 04/15/2022 8:02:22 AM PDT by Striperman (Striperman)
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To: V_TWIN

Start with bigger Android market when they now couldn’t even make the smaller Apple market work?


87 posted on 04/15/2022 8:07:00 AM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The only folks who give a darn about who owns more -— are idiots. Geesh. 10% vs 9%.

If Musk can secure >30% he will control. If >50% he can force a vote on anything.


88 posted on 04/15/2022 8:20:13 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Reno89519

At this point it doesn’t look like it matters....at least if it got off the ground with Android first there’d be a larger audience from the start.

That’s my uneducated thinking anyway


89 posted on 04/15/2022 8:23:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: FarCenter

Vanguard would lose “nothing”?

Either way, manipulate it, raise the stock and then dump it. Make them take a loss whichever way


90 posted on 04/15/2022 9:16:31 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: airborne

I hear claims like that but I have no idea of how anyone knows or can identify bots. I can’t tell.


91 posted on 04/15/2022 9:18:19 AM PDT by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: qaz123

I wish blackrock would buy my MIL’s house!


92 posted on 04/15/2022 9:23:01 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules
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To: SmokingJoe

AOL was a closed system. Closed systems died when the World Wide Web showed up.

Netscape was/is a broswer. Mozilla Firefox is its current incarnation


93 posted on 04/15/2022 9:26:29 AM PDT by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: yesthatjallen

Together, Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, Blackrock and State Street own over 25% of Twitter stock.

https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?symb=TWTR&subView=institutional


94 posted on 04/15/2022 10:09:18 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: Arcadian Empire
MySpace was once the default social network but then Facebook sent it into obscurity.

Also see: Altavista

95 posted on 04/15/2022 11:15:10 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Dave W
The DOJ announced this afternoon that they have started an investigation of Musk...interesting timing.

If necessary, they'll just make something up. FedGov is absolutely evil in every respect.

96 posted on 04/15/2022 11:21:13 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: airborne
Is it true that a substantial percentage of Twitter traffic (+-30%) is from bots?

That is what I have heard. Wouldn't surprise me one bit.

97 posted on 04/15/2022 11:34:08 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Striperman
Please Gab is an haven for ant semites and should be shut down!

should be shut down? hardly. blocking them is easy enough. I suspect most of them are actually trolls, possibly even government funded trolls designed to make the site look bad. On Gab, if it's protected by the first amendment, you can say it. That sounds like a reasonable stance to take to me. I'm not interested in shutting down anyone's ability to speak, even cretins. Sadly, not everyone is as supportive of free speech, obviously.

98 posted on 04/15/2022 11:38:34 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Pelham

AOL was # 1 on the web long before Google or Facebook or Twitter.
Netscape browser died long ago after being the #1 browser.
Internet Explorer from Microsoft was the # 1 browser for along time before getting clobbered by Chrome.


99 posted on 04/15/2022 11:39:37 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: wastedyears

Truth Social is only available to Apple users. There is still no android app, there is no web based product and is apparently available only in the US. Trump had 89 million followers on Twitter and has less than a million on Truth Social. There are people who have been on a waiting list for a month just to download the app. My nephew has the app and was finally able to download it, but has not really used it.
Anyway, it’s a major undertaking to launch something like this, but sometimes the media is correct.


100 posted on 04/15/2022 11:47:51 AM PDT by Dave W
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