Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is just his latest desperate bid for celebrity | Sian Cain

From The Simpsons to Iron Man, everyone’s favourite billionaire has been making pop culture cameos to poke fun at how nice and smart he is

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Finally, we have arrived. We’re on the most cursed timeline, where the man who once paid $20m for a single bad tweet now owns Twitter. Elon Musk has spent $44bn – half of which is his own money – to take over the social media platform where #AmberTurd regularly trends.

This news has prompted a mass exodus as believable as that time in 2016 when all American liberals were apparently moving to Canada. But how surprised can we be that the idiot’s favourite smart guy has forked out so much for control over public discourse?

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