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Goldie Taylor

Elon's Twitter takeover is a disaster

A cellphone displaying a photo of Elon Musk placed on a computer monitor filled with Twitter logos (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

There are few guarantees in this life. But, this I know: There will be death, taxes, and the not-so-infrequent Elon Musk shit-post. 

Having fired four senior executives and dissolved its board of directors, and now laying off thousands of employees, Twitter's new owner, chief executive and now sole director hasn't exactly been a study in stability. After spending months trying to scuttle the $44 billion deal to acquire the social media giant and within days of frog-marching CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal out of the building presumably without their pre-negotiated, multi-billion dollar payouts, Musk returned to his favorite pastime — trolling.

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