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The billionaire, who has just bought the influential social network Twitter, poses as a defender of freedom of expression. Beware of tremors!
By Guillaume Grallet
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VSow to go from the status of the richest man in the world to that of the most indebted man? It’s not by offering himself billionaire vacations – he never takes one – or by investing in real estate splurges – he recently sold his six villas in Los Angeles. No, the answer is simple and takes up much less than 280 characters: it is by offering, on April 25, after a lightning attack, to buy Twitter for a check for 44 billion dollars. By offering a 38% premium to its stock market value, Elon Musk not only got his hands on the microblogging site created in 2006, but he took it off Wall Street, leaving him free to reshape it. its own way.
“Freedom of expression is the basis of a functioning democracy…
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