KATE THOMPSON DAVY: Let the record reflect: Musk — not any number of bots — is tanking the Twitter deal
Analysts almost uniformly agree that the billionaire overbid for the social media platform
12 July 2022 - 18:36
I called it. I’m allowing myself this gloat because I have been spectacularly wrong with predictions, some rather memorably. “The English aren’t going to cut themselves off from the trade and travel privilege of being in the EU,” I opined in 2016.
But this one I felt sure from his first public bellyaching on the bots issue in May: Elon Musk was going to try tanking his own Twitter deal, and then he’d gaslight the world about how everything went south so quickly...
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