The inside story of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

The inside story of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
A new book portrays Elon Musk as a man experiencing the most brutal case of buyer’s remorse in human history. (Image: Klyona / Depositphotos)
The Washington Post
By Zack RuskinAs it turns out, making the decision to ban a sitting US President from a social media platform that hails itself as a “global town square” can be rather stressful.In their new book, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac recount in minute-by-minute detail how the decision to boot Donald Trump from Twitter (now X) went down. Along the way, they offer tantalising titbits on the ambivalent position of site co-founder Jack Dorsey, and the frantic texts...

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