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Elon’s Legal Road to Perdition

The explosion of litigation stemming from Musk’s rampage at Twitter—mass firings, gag orders, jilted shareholders and vendors—threatens to expedite the company’s astounding downfall into the hands of its creditors. Too bad he’s fired so many lawyers.

Elon Musk
Musk’s legal problems are compounding just a couple of months into his $44 billion Twitter takeover. Photo: Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
December 19, 2022

Elon Musk may be a free speech hypocrite, but he’s hardly the first. This is America, after all, where one day the nation’s forefathers are unfurling the First Amendment, and the next they’re literally making it a crime to say anything scandalous about the government. Sure, Elon promised to turn Twitter into a free speech paradise, and now he’s banning users for tweeting the location of his Gulfstream G650. But that’s his right as the owner of a private company he wildly overpaid for. To quote Bari Weiss, “The old regime at Twitter governed by its own whims and biases and it sure looks like the new regime has the same problem.”