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  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk's personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure ended up buying Twitter because the courts made him.

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[-] 7112@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So Taylor Swift is going to buy it next?

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Why settle your jet-tracking beef when you can just eat it?

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

I think he got talked into thinking the Twitter files were real.

[-] catculation@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago
[-] nednobbins@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't doubt that was his initial motivation for making the suggestions.

I also remember that he tried to back out of buying Twitter multiple times. While doing so he was pretty public about all the crazy crap he would do with Twitter.

Despite all that Twitter went to a judge and got them to force Musk to complete the sale. He's a crappy CEO for Twitter but it's kind of on the former Twitter leadership for forcing that situation.

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[-] gian@lemmy.grys.it 6 points 2 years ago

Assuming this is true, there are methods to have the same result that are way less expensive...

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