'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,' by reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tells wild story of billionaire's disastrous takeover
— now X — played out in very public fashion: the $44 billion offer, an attempt to walk it back, and a lawsuit that forced Musk to complete the deal were followed by massive layoffs, a spike in, botched updates, and the return of notorious bad actors whose accounts had been permanently suspended — as well as an exodus of the advertisers that account for the site’s revenue.
Here we list some of the most baffling, disturbing, laughable and just plain ridiculous moments in Conger and Mac’s chronicle of Musk’sa British diver involved in the 2018 rescue of a Thai youth soccer team in a flooded cave as a “pedo,” he made efforts to prove the unfounded accusation true. To that end, his wealth manager and CEO of his brain implant company Neuralink, Jared Birchall, paid $52,000 to someone he thought was a private investigator to dig up dirt on the man.
Perry Farrell Apologizes After Jane's Addiction Cancel Tour: 'My Breaking Point Resulted in Inexcusable Behavior' Musk isn’t too forgiving of employees who criticize him — or give him answers he doesn’t like — as many episodes in the book illustrate. In one case, he was enraged about a decline in engagement on his tweets, and abruptly fired an engineer who suggested that the public’s interest in him had fallen off since the Twitter acquisition closed several months prior.
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