On Thursday, Elon Musk convened Twitter employees for a virtual town hall to discuss his pending takeover of the company, which he agreed to purchase for $44 billion in April. Since then, of course, he has careened publicly through extreme optimism about Twitter’s financial future, promising to triple ad revenue; extraordinary contempt for its employees and culture; and buyer’s remorse at having offered a sizable premium to take Twitter private amid a tech stock meltdown that has likely cut Twitter’s fair market value in half but for his offer. He has threatened to walk away from the deal (which he cannot do, at least not without a lawsuit, or five, and a $1 billion breakup fee) over the existence of bots and other fake accounts on the platform.