WhenWhen Elon Musk bought Twitter last year, after offering to buy it on a lark and then doing everything he could to not buy it before pretending that he really wanted to all along, very few people thought he wanted to destroy the platform. There were a few posters who surmised Musk wanted to break the public sphere, but that was a small opinion.
And yet — if Musk did want to ruin Twitter, what would he have done differently? Making a fiasco of blue checks, taking away all accountability, running the whole enterprise as a series of trolls and personal feuds and dumb 4/20 jokes and petty micromanaging would be a good way to do it.