{"id":16059,"date":"2024-09-29T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/29\/character-limit-how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter-review-the-ego-has-landed-just-not-on-mars\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T14:37:17","slug":"character-limit-how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter-review-the-ego-has-landed-just-not-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/29\/character-limit-how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter-review-the-ego-has-landed-just-not-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter review \u2013 the ego has landed, just not on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac paint a damning portrait of the billionaire who turned the social media platform into a smaller business and a larger cesspool<\/p>\n

If Elon Musk is a name that sounds as if it was invented by Ian Fleming, there\u2019s more than a hint of the Bond villain about the South Africa-born American billionaire. It\u2019s not just the extraordinary wealth, which hovers around the quarter of a trillion dollars mark, but the SpaceX business that sends rockets into space and seeks Martian colonisation (very Hugo Drax and Moonraker<\/em>) and the hypersensitive ego.<\/p>\n

All of these sides of Musk are on painful display in Kate Conger and Ryan Mac\u2019s book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter<\/em>. So unappealing is the portrait this pair of New York Times<\/em> technology reporters paint that a more fitting title might be Character Assassination. Or it would if it wasn\u2019t for the fact that Musk himself provides most of ammunition discharged in this damning account.<\/p>\n

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\nNew York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac paint a damning portrait of the billionaire who turned the social media platform into a smaller business and a larger cesspool
\nIf Elon Musk is a name that sounds as if it was invented by Ian Fleming, there\u2019s more than a hint of the Bond villain about the South Africa-born American billionaire. It\u2019s not just the extraordinary wealth, which hovers around the quarter of a trillion dollars mark, but the SpaceX business that sends rockets into space and seeks Martian colonisation (very Hugo Drax and Moonraker) and the hypersensitive ego.
\nAll of these sides of Musk are on painful display in Kate Conger and Ryan Mac\u2019s book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter. So unappealing is the portrait this pair of New York Times technology reporters paint that a more fitting title might be Character Assassination. Or it would if it wasn\u2019t for the fact that Musk himself provides most of ammunition discharged in this damning account. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac paint a damning portrait of the billionaire who turned the social media platform into a smaller business and a larger cesspool If Elon Musk is a name that sounds as if it was invented by Ian Fleming, there\u2019s more than a hint of the Bond villain …<\/p>\n

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