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    Elon Musk Buying Twitter Is Weird, Chaotic, and a Little Bit Awesome

    Anybody who is extremely confident about how this is going to work out doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
    by Derek Thompson Apr 25, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: Oliver Munday / The Atlantic

    To be honest, I still can’t believe this happened. Earlier today, Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s offer of $44 billion to buy the company and take it private. In one of the largest and weirdest tech acquisitions in recent memory, Musk fought off initial opposition and a poison-pill threat to buy the social-media service.

    News of the deal has polarized Twitter users and employees. How will Musk transform the social network while remaining chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX? Will his promises to protect free speech also increase misinformation and abuse on the platform? And, um, is Donald Trump coming back?

    [Read: Will Elon Musk go full future-of-civilization on Twitter?]  

    Here are some totally unstructured answers to those questions, whose randomness I hope adequately captures the

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