(April 04 18:54) The Verge
Elon Musk at the opening of Tesla’s German factory. | Photo by Christian Marquardt - Pool/Getty Images
Tesla CEO Elon Musk now owns 9.2 percent of Twitter according to a 13G filing released today, Bloomberg News reports. According to the filing, Musk purchased the stake on March 14th. Musk has long been one of Twitter’s highest profile users with over 80 million followers on the platform. Twitter’s share price was up over 25 percent in pre-market trading on the news.
Musk had been publicly calling into question Twitter’s approach to free speech via a poll conducted on his Twitter account on March 25th. “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” the CEO asked, before noting in a follow-up tweet that “the consequences of this poll will be important.”
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