Following his purchase of Twitter for $44 billion, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased buying more iconic American companies in order to ostensibly restore them – even suggesting that he might buy Coca-Cola in order to reintroduce cocaine into the ingredients of the soft drink.
"Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in," Musk quipped in a late-night tweet Wednesday.
A Twitter user responded by sharing a photo of the first publicly-sold bottle from 1894 – a product that contained 3.5 grams of cocaine. "Bring it back," the user added.FORMER TWITTER CEO JACK DORSEY RESPONDS TO MUSK TAKEOVER: 'ELON IS THE SINGULAR SOLUTION I TRUSTBilly Markus, the co-creator of Dogecoin who uses the Twitter name "Shibetoshi Nakamoto" , asked Musk, "can you buy fox I want another season of ‘firefly’.
The Tesla CEO even shared what appears to be a doctored photo of him promising on Twitter, "Now I'm going to buy McDonald's and fix all of the ice cream machines…" Twitter accepted Musk's $44 billion offer to buy the company earlier this week. Musk, who has criticized Twitter for failing to embrace free speech, hailed the platform as "the digital town square" and pledged to increase free speech on the platform.
"Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it," Musk added.Critics have suggested that dialing back content moderation may endanger users and allow misinformation to spread. As for critics, Musk tweeted, "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."John Stith Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in the late 1800s and marketed it as a temperance drink intended as a patent medicine. The name refers to two of its original ingredients: coca leaves, from which cocaine is derived; and kola nuts, a source of caffeine. Coca-Cola once contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass .
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