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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

The X isn’t worth it

X CEO Elon Musk leaves a Senate forum on artificial intelligence at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13. Musk is floating the idea of charging X (formerly Twitter) users a monthly fee. (Mandel Ngan/Getty)

Elon Musk is not the X god he likely thinks he is. No birdie has to tell anyone he keeps repelling social media users with his frenetic performance running the once-popular platform previously known as Twitter.

Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the company he foolishly renamed X would fit perfectly as a case study of a ”really poor takeover of an organization,” as Bill George, an executive fellow at Harvard Business School, told CNBC Make It over the summer. “I don’t think he understands social media.”

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