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Stunt or strategy? What Elon Musk wants from Twitter
CNN
Some billionaires buy newspapers, magazines and sports teams. Elon Musk is trying to buy a social network that he himself admits might cause much of the world to hate him.
"Everyone will still blame me for everything," Musk said during an on-stage interview at the TED conference on Thursday. "If I acquire Twitter and something goes wrong, it's my fault 100%. I think there will be quite a few errors."
Sounds promising. So why exactly does the world's richest man — who is already running multiple companies with ambitious goals like taking humans to Mars — want to buy Twitter (TWTR), a social media platform which, for all its benefits, is facing scrutiny for content issues like hate speech and misinformation, and also fighting to reignite user growth?
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