May 1

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Evaluating Elon Musk’s Plan To Fix Twitter

Alex Roetter, who once ran Twitter engineering, evaluates the feasibility of Musk’s proposals.

Barring a messy, last-minute divorce, Elon Musk is on track to own Twitter (and yes, mea culpa). The mercurial, brilliant entrepreneur offloaded around $8.5 billion of Tesla stock this week as he prepared to pay for his $44 billion…

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Evaluating Elon Musk’s Plan To Fix Twitter

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