Elon Musk Details His Motivations For Buying Twitter

On Thursday, Elon Musk penned an open letter to Twitter advertisers.

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He detailed his “motivation” for acquiring the social media platform.

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“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square,” he wrote.

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He said he wants “a wide range of beliefs” to be “debated in a healthy manner.”

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He said he didn’t buy Twitter “to make more money.”

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“I did it to try to help humanity, who I love,” Musk wrote.

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He said that he does plan to keep ads on Twitter, despite previous comments.

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Musk wrote, “Low relevancy ads are spam, but highly relevant ads are actually content!”

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Musk has until October 28 at 5 PM to close the $44 billion dollar deal.

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