Elon musk is the ceo of a car company, tesla. He's also a renowned internetir poster. Spends a lot of time on twitter. Loves talking smack about berney sanders and ant elizabeth warren. His account is disclosed in some of their filings as being a legitimate source for tessla information. In 20 18, which i understand feels like the ancient mists of time by now, he made an announcement that he was going to take tela private, funding secured on twitter. Funding was not secured. T i just don't even know what to say about that.
Elon Musk says he wants to buy Twitter, but is also making 420 jokes. Kara Swisher (who knows him) and Liz Lopatto (who doesn’t) explain whether the world should take him seriously (or care).
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Matthew Collette and Amina Al-Sadi, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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