# Now that Musk bought Twitter -- Breaking News only

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**Tags:** breaking-news, elon-musk\
**Created:** [November 29, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737 "2022-11-29T13:10:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-musk-bought-twitter-breaking-news-only/975737/27 "2022-11-30T18:00:19Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> His moves to entice Trump and Republicans onto the platform both make sense. Twitter made large money off of Trump. Being the one major platform that allows Republicans to be Republicans gives you a built-in market of 50% of the USA and probably a bit more past that, in other countries.

Until he kills those conservatives in the next pandemic.

> **[‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/21/twitter-anti-vax-health-misinformation)**
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> Platform’s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation

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