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Musking it: Inside Elon’s Twitter takeover

Musking it: Inside Elon’s Twitter takeover

The Slow Newscast • S1, Episode 179

Musking it: Inside Elon’s Twitter takeover

It’s hard to know what to make of Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. Was it an impulsive act of folly on the part of the world’s richest man? Or was it perhaps, as Elon Musk himself suggested, an effort to help humanity, which he claims to love? What’s less in doubt is that the story behind Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter is extraordinary.

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