Elon Musk is pretty awesome, extremely rich – and completely ruthless. Now he wants to transform Twitter into a place where everyone can say almost anything. What he overlooks: Radical freedom of speech leads to boundless hatred.
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Simon Hurtz
Elon Musk builds the most coveted cars in the world, offers charter flights into space and brings the Internet back to the Ukrainian war zone with his satellites. One of the richest people in the world has made his fortune with brilliant ideas, half a dozen start-ups and 120-hour weeks. Musk has no permanent home, sells flamethrowers and dreams of colonizing Mars. His son is called “X Æ A-XII”, his tweets make people panic sell their shares or invest their money in strange cryptocurrencies. The Tesla boss is a highly intelligent genius with the humor of a pubescent teenager. Only one thing he is not guaranteed: predictable.