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The Elon-doesn't-want-it hypothesis
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The Elon-doesn't-want-it hypothesis

If Musk truly means to walk away from Twitter, what will it cost him?

Casey Newton
Jul 12
“The Twitter logo on a hot potato,” as rendered by OpenAI’s DALL-E
“The Twitter logo on a hot potato,” as rendered by OpenAI’s DALL-E

On Friday Elon Musk said that he no longer wished to acquire Twitter, and moved to terminate his binding agreement to purchase the company. With the recent decline in tech stock prices across the board, it is now generally agreed upon that the $44 billion Musk agreed to spend is far more …

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