Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

by Kate Conger

“Elon only wants to hear positive things,” Rezaei instructed him. “Don’t tell him about what we can’t do or try to justify the status quo.” “Elon just wants to do what benefits humanity.”

As they all got into the elevator car and rode down to the first floor, one of the guards turned to smile at him. “What did you say to him?” he asked. “I told him some things he didn’t like,” the data scientist responded. “It must have felt good.”

“To be honest, what I said is what everyone is saying behind his back. But nobody’s saying it to his face.”

He also made a prediction that there would be a coming global incident that may force people to shelter in their homes and use an internet platform to communicate.

Musk argued with virologists and doctors on the site, cast doubt on the virus positivity rates in the country, and advocated for a drug—anti-malarial treatment hydroxychloroquine—that had no verifiable impact on the disease.

The process quickly shifted from a monumental one of historical consequence—a Twitter employee deciding to curtail statements by the leader of the free world—to a minor irritation squeezed in between morning alarms, coffee, and getting kids ready for school.