Elan Musk Now Officially Has the Money to Buy Twitter

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Twitter is set to agree to sell the platform to elon moske after the platform's board accepted his forty four billion dollar bid. Twitter has had a very long history of allowing all types of speech to flow, and they've gotten in a lot of trouble for that. The idea that they should just go back to square one and scrap all of it was kind of offensive to a lot of people who work on this issue.

Last week, Elon Musk announced that he was pulling out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase Twitter. Today, we explore why a company that once tried to fend off this acquisition is now trying to force Mr. Musk to buy it.

Guest: Kate Conger, a technology reporter for The New York Times.

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Why Mr. Musk is leaving Twitter worse off than it was when he said he would buy it.

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