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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Marina Hyde

So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun?

Elon Musk in the Oval Office, 30 May 2025.
Elon Musk in the Oval Office, 30 May 2025. Photograph: Allison Robbert/AFP/Getty Images

Did you see Elon Musk apologise for some tweets this week? (Please don’t be naff and call them “X posts”.) Like me, you will be so embarrassed for Earth’s primo edgelord that he feels pressed into doing something so excruciatingly conventional. This is worse than when Kate Moss was scapegoated into rehab.

Imagine owning the world’s premier shitposting platform – in fact, having spent $44bn (£32bn) on it, specifically so that your magic mirror would tell you each day that you were the fairest shitposter of all – and then shuffling sheepishly on to your own pixels to mumble something about having gone “too far” with your hurty words. Buck up, sadsack – honestly.

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