[rapnie]

So it loses pocket change for a multi billionaire?

Edit: The consideration being that perhaps billionaire toys need not be profitable per se, but are purchased for different reasons. Twitter is another example here.

[potro]

A $100m here, a $100m there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.

[ZeroGravitas]

That's assuming the pro-billionaire propaganda it produces doesn't make him many hundreds of millions more.

In that light an arbitrary but vaguely plausible reason to fire anyone who insists on doing actual journalism and not billionaire propaganda is a useful tool.

[bravetraveler]

Y'all are talking about the real Scrooge McDuck.

[cenamus]

Yeah, he could only keep this going for another 2600 years