More oddities spotted in the news

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The internet seems to have settled on two theories about Elon Musk.

1) It was a fun idea at first. After the market fell, he decided he didn't want to sell Tesla stock at a discount in order to buy Twitter at a premium. So he made up some stuff to break the contract.

2) He never planned to buy Twitter in the first place, but was just looking for a way to plausibly sell overpriced Tesla stock without crashing the value first. He made an offer never intending to keep it, but intending to pay the $1B breakup fee, which would be less than losing Tesla stock value back in April. So he made up some stuff to break the contract.

Either way everything he's saying now about bots is complete nonsense. Before he bought Twitter, one of the reasons he said he wanted it was so that he could come in and clean up all the bots. If the reason for breaking the contract is implausible, a billion dollars is going to be the minimum he's going to have to pay, and it could be much higher.