Other than a lawsuit that’s as of yet unresolved, this seems to be the main source for your claim, from The New York Times:
> To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks, three people close to the company said.
People who believe Musk is being hounded for ideological reasons also believe that NYT is among the culprits.
You think if Google or Toyota or Maersk or HSBC or AT&T stopped paying rent on their offices it wouldn’t be a major news story? It would be because it would have a dramatic impact on their perceived solvency and their share price.
I’m quite familiar with the Elon fanboy who says “masterful move sir” when he sees Elon slam his dick in a car door. But you’re in a different category. Your response to dick destruction seems to be “nothing to see here, it’s a regular, normal activity. The mainstream media is persecuting Elon!”
Jack was a 3% owner with no real power to rein in his secret police. He was Rasputin in beard only. His top executives mocked him in not-so-private chats. Elon ain't having that and quickly axed the disloyal factions. That speaks to his acumen as a leader. It's arguable whether Twitter has a brighter future as a Blue Team party organ (partially subsidized by the surveillance state), or as a "public square" with diverse views. One bet is that the mainstream media have shit the bed with their partisanship and are now completely discredited, leaving the field open for a new trusted news source. That seems to be the bet Elon is making, at least in public. Doubtless, he has some other business interests tied up in owning Twitter and will have to work out political support beyond the DoD. But it is interesting to see the soft white belly of the State Dept and CIA/FBI exposed. Clearly, his enemies are not the people who control lucrative satellite contracts. Do your own math on that one. And there's always the simple explanation that Elon has some residual affection for classical liberal capitalism, a vestige of that ol' Valley Libertarianism typical of PayPal at its founding (and other 2000s era entrepreneurs and VCs). In this interpretation, what we're seeing at Twitter is partly a reassertion of entrepreneurial ownership interests against the managerial class of public/private mandarins.
