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This is the story of how a 9-word tweet got Elon Musk in legal trouble so that he had to pay a 20 million dollar fine, step down as CEO of Tesla and get a Twitter Sitter.

In this episode of Elon Musk Vs Twitter, Bec Hill boards her mini-submarine to dive deep into the ocean of jokes, memes and legal mistakes that make up Elon Musk鈥檚 Twitter history. She analyses some of Elon鈥檚 most controversial tweets and learns about how one of them got him in so much trouble that he had to pay a 20 million dollar fine, step down from his role as the CEO of Tesla and get a Twitter - sitter.
Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter so he could make major changes to the platform, so Bec speaks to the tech journalists who鈥檝e been following every minute of the deal to find out what Elon wanted to change and whether the deal to buy Twitter could change the future of how we interact online.
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