Elon's deadline approaches

And Twitter employees are getting nervous. PLUS: The Wire retracts its Meta stories

“blue bird looking impatiently at a calendar, digital art” / DALL-E

Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter could close this week. Today let’s check in on how that’s going.

Inside the company’s offices, and in the virtual spaces where remote employees congregate, the tone is “somber,” one worker told me today. In meetings, some employees are openly d…