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Everything we don't know about Elon Musk's latest about-face on Twitter

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the start of the production at Tesla's "Gigafactory" on March 22, 2022, in Berlin.

Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share: A headline from April, yes, but also breaking news, with the on-again, off-again Silicon Valley saga looping back around on itself to end up, on the eve of a courtroom showdown, exactly where it started.

With a trial over the stalled merger set to begin Oct. 17, the Tesla billionaire proposed Monday evening to consummate his courtship of the social media platform at the original price he agreed to pay in April.

A sharp downturn in the stock market quickly made the $44-billion purchase price seem high, and it wasn't

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