Elon Musk talks Tesla, Twitter, and why he tweets freely — even if it costs him money

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Elon Musk on his acquisition of Twitter: 'The analogy I was using was it was like being teleported into a plane that's in a nosedive, headed to the ground with the engines on fire and the controls don't work. That's what it felt like.'

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down for a sprawling interview with CNBC anchor David Faber on Tuesday following Tesla's 2023 annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas.How he has managed a takeover of Twitter

so far and what lies ahead. Among other things, he said Twitter's Community Notes feature has cost Twitter $40 million in business when two big clients reduced spending after their ads received community notes accusing them of false advertising. He also claimed that when the acquisition closed, Twitter had negative $3 billion in annual cash flow and $1 billion in the bank.

for people in the "laptop class" to advocate for working from home when service workers, such as people who work in factories, still have to show up in person.

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