The article claims that they didn’t care about the possible profits of Twitter.
These investors would have either made money trough indirect means (keeping the eyes of the world off their shady stuff), or would use it to get a lot more power (think of misinformation strengthening their regimes) and many other tactics.
When these big boys play this game, there often isn’t a 1:1 relation.
I really dislike that guy. I was interested in his website but lost interest because of him. I already forgot why I started disliking him. But this just adds to that.