Even if they do, it’s still a win for Musk. He got what he wanted out of the deal. He got the ability to rewrite the feed algorithms as he saw fit, and steer a large portion of online public discourse towards getting Trump re-elected. Tough to say how much of a factor this was, but it definitely contributed. The money he lost on Twitter, he’ll make back.

We all laughed at him for setting the platform on a course of destruction, and that may yet still happen, but he got the last laugh out of it. Props to him, I guess.