The billionaire’s purchase of Twitter has brought him more attention, and harsher criticism from the media, than ever before. The latter could be what drove him to buy the social media platform.
Elon Musk, the South African-born richest man who ever lived, has joked on several occasions about being an alien. Members of his inner circle, notably his ex-wife Talulah Riley, have also made the same joking suggestion. Which leads us, inevitably, to the question: is it really a joke?
Since buying Twitter, Musk has approached the social network as if its challenges are predominantly located in engineering or programming — apparently deaf to the notion that free speech, in particular, is a more nuanced issue than can be resolved by a sharp piece of coding.
Now, at the age of 51, he has taken control of the ultimate platform in world history for know-it-alls with a fixation on correcting other kids: Twitter.
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