Elon Musk asked Twitter users to vote on whether he should step down as CEO. 17 and a half million people had their say, and the majority of them thought he should go. Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter outright, take the company private. He is offering $43.4 billion in cash, his own money, and offer thatTwitter says its board of directors will now quote carefully review.
Elon Musk may be stepping down as chief executive, but he has already changed the firm’s fortunes—and shown that social media’s free-speech struggle is far from over. A bit of fried dough in Kenya reveals how cost-of-living concerns in Africa manifest as shrinkflation. And why members of South Korea’s pop behemoth BTS are headed into the armed forces.
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