[codeddesign]

Large shareholders were moved to equity upon purchase.

In other words..the Saudi you are referencing was a large shareholder of the “Old Twitter”.

That’s along the lines of “how much did Russia fund Facebook”

VTB (sanctioned bank) funded Facebook in the tune of $1bn. It also funded Twitter in 2011 for $191m.

[BulgarianIdiot]

Buying shares is not funding. Unless the shares are emitted from the co itself. Which happens during IPO and dilution only.