Elon Musk has reached an agreement to buy Twitter for about 44 billion dollars (£34.5 billion), promising a more lenient touch to policing content on the platform. Mr Musk himself is a prolific tweeter with a following that rivals several pop stars in the ranks of the most popular accounts. Mr Musk is the world’s wealthiest person, according to Forbes, with a nearly 279 billion dollars fortune. That same year, Mr Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, after finding that cost constraints were limiting Nasa’s interplanetary travel. In 2004, Mr Musk was courted to invest in Tesla, then a start-up trying to build an electric car.

Source: The Times April 25, 2022 08:44 UTC