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Musk's xAI buys social media platform X for $45 billion (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I suppose because he can at a moment's notice gut the SEC and presumably now that X is incorporated in Texas and I have to assume xAI is as well(?) there's no federal or state fraud investigation likely.

Feels quaint that Trump in 2017 even went to the trouble of filling a table with blank papers to give the appearance of being concerned about conflicts of interest, and this outright self-dealing corruption is happening daily while nobody in power even talks about it.