[plain talk]

"Vanguard isn't making a directional bet on Twitter. Instead, the majority of its assets are in index and other so-called passive funds."

If you are not familiar with Vanguard you may wish to check them out. They have some of the lowest expense ratios among index funds.

Twitter is in the S&P 500 index. Vanguard acquires TWT shares in a machine like manner to maintain its S&P 500 index fund weighting along with other index funds that include TWT.

The fact that Vanguard accumulates TWT shares is probably not some deep state conspiracy.