Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • 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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  • @RealFknNitoEnglish
    88•9 months ago

    Elon Musk burning billions of dollars to not have his public information publicly posted is one of the biggest Ls he’s ever taken and that’s a long list to fight to the top of.

    • @fedroxxEnglish
      14•9 months ago

      And totally on par for him.

    • @FadesEnglish
      7•9 months ago

      I love that for him 🥰

    • @johannesvanderwhalesEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      And you know the worst part about it? Burning that amount of money makes basically zero difference in his life.

      • @dustyDataEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        But you forget the best part. The tracker still exists and everyone still knows where his fucking jet is flying to because that shit is public information by air navigation regulation. There’s still bots that regularly posts the MuskJet location both in Twitter and Mastodon. So he spent all that money and still failed.