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No, he wasn't forced to buy Twitter, but he didn't want to pay the $1bn deal failure fee, so instead he spent $44bn to buy Twitter and drive it directly into the ground. But he COULD have just paid $1bn and walked away.

>>burnte+(OP)
Nah he wanted the narrative power. Twitter is, he argues, the newspaper of record of the internet and he is its editor.

>>theGnu+CK
He says that now, but he tried to back out of the deal, so we know he at one point realized the buy wasn't a good move.