Elon-gate: the Musk-Twitter story

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The Economist

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4.3 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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After months of wrangling, Elon Musk completed his deal to buy Twitter, and immediately sacked several top executives. We ask what’s next for the platform and its users. Organised crime is damaging South Africa’s economy. And our obituaries editor looks back at one of the 20th century’s most daring heists. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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1:13.3	Few countries are free of organized crime.
1:16.6	Rackets are easy to run and often hard to eradicate.
1:20.3	But in South Africa,
1:22.2	corruption and the withering of state capacity
1:24.1	have produced an organized crime boom
1:26.3	that has blighted the country's economy.
1:30.3	And speaking of crime, this sounds like a riddle.
1:33.3	How do you steal a 152 kilogram rock wedged under the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey?
1:40.3	A chain-smoking student hatched to plan in 1950. Our obituaries editor tells his story.
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