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Why would two of Musk’s financiers in this Qatar and Saudi Arabia want twitter dead? Oh wait.


Didn't the saudi's get in trouble for trying to plant spies in twitter to sniff out political dissidents?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/twitter-saud...


Source?


The Saudi one is well-known - they're the second largest equity holder in the new org;

https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/158597522656711065...


Just adding a source for Qatar as well - in for $375 million:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/11/12/qatar...


In a $44 billion deal, I'm not sure that $375 million buys you much leverage. That's under 1%.




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