Will Elon Musk regret buying Twitter?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:07.3 | Today, it's not rocket science, but it might be even harder. |
| 0:11.6 | Why Elon Musk may find that running Twitter is his biggest challenge yet. |
| 0:16.0 | About four years ago, I was in Thailand reporting on the extraordinary mission to save 12 children stuck in a cave. |
| 0:32.4 | Breaking news, a big development on the situation in Thailand, a rescue mission, dangerous and desperate to reach a group of boys, |
| 0:39.4 | and their soccer coach or trapped deep in a cave could be underway. |
| 0:43.2 | It was this amazing story of how ordinary people can be heroes, how the whole world can rally to do something unambiguously good. |
| 0:56.4 | And then, the billionaire, Elon Musk arrived. |
| 1:04.0 | He came in the middle of the night on a private jet and delivered a submarine he'd invented to much acclaim on his Twitter account. |
| 1:10.8 | A submarine that divers said had no chance of navigating the cave system and rescuing the boys. |
| 1:17.7 | Musk didn't stay long, he posed for some pictures and left. |
| 1:22.0 | And shortly after, he used his Twitter account to call one of the British cave divers. |
| 1:27.3 | One of the men who had actually saved the kids, a pedagogue. |
| 1:31.3 | Elon Musk arrives at court in Los Angeles, the entrepreneur due to face the British diving specialist, |
| 1:37.9 | he accused of being a pedophile. |
| 1:46.3 | He was sued for defamation and won the case. |
| 1:48.9 | The jury decided Musk wasn't trying to defame the diver, just insulting. |
| 1:53.7 | And in the US, insults are protected as free speech. |
| 1:58.4 | We are following breaking news. |
| 2:00.4 | The deal is done. |
| 2:02.0 | Twitter has been sold to Elon Musk. |
| 2:05.0 | The Tesla and SpaceX CEO |
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