Twitter aims its most powerful weapon atElon Musk: his own tweets

The face of a man who has decided he won't defeat the spambots or die trying | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images

So it was a troll after all.

Look, I was willing to believe I'd called it wrong after the merger agreement went through. Maybe Elon Musk was serious for a change! Maybe he really did want to own an also-ran social network! Maybe Musk was really looking forward to giving himself ulcers dealing with content moderation issues! People have done weirder shit for power, and I think we can all agree that Elon Musk is deeply interested in power. Why else would he be busy testing how well Americans enforce their laws?

A quick recap: Musk is attempting to do a runner on the Twitter acquisition, and Twitter isn't having it. Twitter lawyered up in the rudest possible fashion: with the firm that came up with the poison pill. That firm then filed a...

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