Fwd: On Tech: Elon Musk is a digital Citizen Kane

this writer, shira ovide, is amazingly inane. she must have pictures of NYT honchos in compromising positions so that her drivel is given such importance. 

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From: The New York Times <nytdirect@nytimes.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 2:15 AM
Subject: On Tech: Elon Musk is a digital Citizen Kane
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What would Twitter look like with Musk as its sole proprietor?

All newsletters Read online For subscribers April 14, 2022 NEWSLETTER PREVIEW This is a preview of the On Tech With Shira Ovide newsletter, which is normally reserved for Times subscribers. On Tech With Shira Ovide is your guide to how technology is changing the world in wonderful and not-so-wonderful ways with topics like technology for the masses, changing habits, and our increasingly technological future. Subscribe to The New York Times to keep getting this newsletter every week. You will also get access to all of our subscriber-only newsletters and to all Times journalism online and in the app. Elon Musk is a digital Citizen Kane Illustration by Nick Sheeran; Photographs by Maja Hitij/Getty Images, Pool photo by Hannibal Hanschke and Bettman, via Getty Images By Shira Ovide What if one of the world's important tools for information was owned by a mercurial billionaire who could do whatever he wanted with it? Yes, I am talking about Elon Musk's proposal to purchase Twitter for himself, which he disclosed on Thursday. His offer works out to more than $43 billion, which is a lot of money, even for Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and the owner of SpaceX. (Musk's letter offering to buy Twitter said that his purchase would be conditioned on finding help in paying for the acquisition. It didn't say where the money might come from.) Will Musk actually have the cash and attention span to follow through on his proposed acquisition, and will Twitter say yes? Who knows? The word "unpredictable" doesn't do justice to this moment. We're already in Week 2 of Musk and Twitter's very public and rocky romance, and there may be more weirdness to come. ...