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Our Reporting at Twitter
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Elon Musk during a press conference at SpaceX's Starbase facility in February 2022. (Jim Watson via Getty Images)
If the story of Twitter’s former overlords is about their prejudices and power trips, the question now is what Elon Musk will do with the powerful tools they created.
By Bari Weiss
12.15.22
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Our Reporting at Twitter

At dinner time on December 2 , I received a text from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, founder of SpaceX, founder of the Boring Company, founder of Neuralink, on most days the richest man in the world (possibly history), and, as of October, the owner of Twitter. 

Was I interested in looking at Twitter’s archives, he asked. And how soon could I get to Twitter HQ?

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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