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Twitter Sold to Elon Musk

The motor car businessman buys the California media company for $44 billion

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Scott Holleran
Apr 25, 2022
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Months after Autonomia published a letter to Elon Musk pleading with the space industrialist to invest in the free press and save America for Americans and free speech, Elon Musk bought Twitter (read the letter).

The Washington Post reported this afternoon that:

Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion on Monday, the company announced, giving the world’s richest person command of one of its most influential social media sites — which serves as a platform for political leaders, a sounding board for experts across industries and an information hub for millions of everyday users.

That the nation’s capital city newspaper owned by the man Musk replaced as the world’s richest human, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, published that slanted copy as a first paragraph reporting today’s breaking news demonstrates the seriousness of major media subjectivism. “Under the terms of the deal,” the Washington Post correctly reported, “Twitter will become a private company and shareholders will receive $54…

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