A lot of people are saying that Musk is buying Twitter to get ahead of this story and control the narrative around it. That's a reasonable (albeit very unproven

A lot of people are saying that Musk is buying Twitter to get ahead of this story and control the narrative around it. That's a reasonable (albeit very unproven) hypothesis. I'd be interested to see if actual facts about this come out and to see if Musk is allowed to say anything about this. Anything is certainly possible and Musk should be condemned harshly for any proven bad behavior. (Personally I think he's just a fairly smart investor and needed cover for an overpriced TSLA stock heading towards a down economy so he wanted to cash out a bit while he still could) But I'd like to put being a celebrity billionaire into context. (this is not from the personal experience of being a celebrity billionaire, unfortunately) Pretty much every non-rich person in the sphere of a wealthy celebrity is hoping to financially benefit from that access. Some nicer people take the path of trying to be extremely loyal to the celebrity in hopes of getting access, jobs, and gifts: you sometimes read stories about wealthy peoples' employees who get extremely generous gifts from them. However, some sociopaths take the path of trying to maneuver themselves into falsely suing their way into getting a piece of that wealth. I'd bet that quite a few rich folks have secretly paid off some bad behaving employees who were willing to fabricate claims to just go away. This doesn't mean that the billionaire did anything wrong, it just wasn't worth the hassle to try and fight a particular claim at a particular time. This is just something that people should keep in mind when hearing about any claims about celebrities: they're surrounded by people who are tempted to take their one shot at a piece of that wealth.