Elon Musk, now Twitter's largest shareholder, asks users if they want an edit button

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Elon Musk, now Twitter's largest shareholder, asks users if they want an edit button
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It is not clear whether it was a genuine request for policy feedback or simply a joke. The poll's options - 'yse' and 'on' - were typos for 'yes' and 'no'.

Musk's investment followed his criticisms of Twitter's approach to free speech, after he claimed he was giving"serious thought" to building a new social media platform.

His stake is considered a passive investment which signals he has no demands on a larger slice of the company - although analysts have cautioned it could ultimately lead to Musk becoming more involved with the running of the business.to free himself from the constraints of a deal he made with US regulators in 2018, an agreement that forces him to have his tweets about Tesla pre-approved by a lawyer to avoid breaking rules around the disclosure of market-sensitive information.

The billionaire had signed an agreement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission after he claimed, in a tweet, he had secured funding to take the company private at $420 a share. But the billionaire now argues he was coerced into signing the agreement, officially known as a consent decree, due to"the SEC's unrelenting regulatory pressure", according to a court filing.Related Topics

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