"Over the weekend, a glitch on the platform meant that the site removed pictures and links on posts made before December 2014. The posts showed broken links instead of the pictures and videos that were previously there.
Several users noticed the glitch, with the technologist Tom Coates among those pointing it out. Coates referred to the glitch as “epic vandalism by Musk” and suggested it could be a cost-saving exercise."
I still believe that he is running it into the ground out of a combination of childish pride and demands from his authoritarian financiers in Saudi Arabia.
He wanted the platform dismantled or reduced to his personal echo chamber because people were making fun of him and he couldn’t do much about it, and the regime wanted the platform under control because free communication is dangerous to their rule.