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                Elon Musk Buys Twitter (Really) for $44 Billion

   Adam Engst

   After months of rollercoaster wheeling and dealing seemingly scripted
   by howler monkeys jacked on cocaine and shrooms, Elon Musk finally
   purchased Twitter for $44 billion. The New York Times has a [1]cogent
   summary of the entire insane story, but for more entertainment, check
   out Nilay Patel's '[2]Welcome to hell, Elon' open letter to Musk at The
   Verge, which explains in profanity-laden detail why he's in over his
   head. Also amusing are the [3]lengthy play-by-play posts from Matt
   Levine at Bloomberg, who has way too much fun exploring the financial
   hand-waving underpinning the deal. We aren't going to weigh in on
   whether Musk's acquisition of Twitter is good, bad, or
   frogtwaddle'there's no predicting what the man will do. We can only
   hope that he doesn't make social media even more of a civil
   society-destroying hellstew than it currently is.

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References

   1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html
   2. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation
   3. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine
   4. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html

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