Will Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and prominent social media troll, really buy Twitter with his unprecedented heap of loot as his bid Wednesday suggests, or is he just posturing?
Looking into the past provides little help. Musk is famous for grand schemes, and while some are widely ridiculed as preposterous, others have come to highly successful fruition.
They’ve also gotten him into trouble. He had to pay $20 million for tweets that federal regulators found to be untrue, and his bid for Twitter appears to contain the same joke as one of the tweets that cost him the cash.
