Rumors abound, Elon Musk wants to buy Instagram. What are your thoughts?

[t-8900]

Rumor has it the next order of business for Elon Musk is to obtain Instagram. What do you think? How would you react?

[BCA6010]

Isn't Instagram owned by Meta/Facebook? I don't see that happening considering that Meta is a significantly larger company than Twitter, and is already under the thumb of a politically aligned, power hungry oligarch. On the other hand, IG isn't all that valuable from a "controlling the public square" perspective compared to Facebook and Twitter, so maybe they'd part with it at a grossly inflated price. I don't think Elon is going to tackle another big tech company until he has firmly turned Twitter around and made it profitable.

His next major acquisition will probably be with the intent of producing microchips or superconductors; something critical on the world stage that directly impacts his other companies rather than sticking it to leftist partisans.

[exitseven]

I am glad he bought Twitter but nobody should own more than one. In the old days before cable TV a company could only own one TV station and one radio station in the same market. Now there are two or three companies that own 90% of the stations. It is not a good idea for one person to have that much influence over the media.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Razp_Sorbet]

I mean if he buys Instagram hed have to buy Facebook (Meta) which is highly unlikely.

[WhitneySnow]

Facebook just bought Insta. They’re probably not gonna sell.

[boredguy007]

They do anything for Money. After all its Musk. 👀

[hahahmm]

Would be hilarious if he banned all the IG "models" who are secretly just prostitutes, selling themselves to the highest bidder & going on trips to Dubai to do sick stuff for cash. I can see the tears now.

[TonyMetal___86]

I don't really care and i don't have an insta account but i heard that he's planning to buy the coca-cola company and will add cocaine to it again...

I never liked this guy and i think that at some point he will think that he can play the role of god because of his wealth...

People who reaches this level of wealth starts to lose their minds and thinks that they can do anything they want!

[t-8900]

Lol I don't know about the coke one. Highly illegal here and now much harder to obtain

[OlderAndWiser]

I would begin to be concerned about antitrust/horizontal monopoly considerations.

[Exterminatore]

I don’t care about Instagram or Twitter but I’m glad someone whose conservative politically will have a measure of control over social media.

[t-8900]

I don't think he's conservative. He describes himself as a socialist and supported the Paris Climate Accord

[Exterminatore]

Well that sure doesn’t help. I thought he was against liberalism at least. He had some choice things to say to the state of CA.

As far as the Paris Climate Accord, yeah. Good business move for him. He’s selling electric cars. Though I don’t agree with his reason behind doing so it is smart for business to back the “green” and environmental crowd.

[t-8900]

He explains that he is a socialist but that his form of it is to end crony capitalism. In other words tax the likes of Jeff Bezos who doesn't pay shit to help out his fellow countrymen. He's also for free speech. His biggest aim is to get AI development regulated as he believes it's being done dangerously without any protection for us. He worries at this rate AI will at worst replace most people in the job market and at worst wipe us all out

[DonkeyDan]

Don't have an Instagram account so don't really care.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Buy YouTube instead. Instagram is just for pictures..

[Anonymous]

Seems unlikely seeing as how Facebook owns it and they ain't selling.

[whereismyjohnny]

I don’t really care 🙃

[msc545]

I don't care what Musk spends money on