The world’s richest man has a lot of experience getting his way in Washington. But doing it as Twitter's owner may be different.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on a commercial mission at Kennedy Space Center April 8, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. | Red Huber/Getty ImagesElon Musk has publicly ridiculed the Securities and Exchange Commission, scrapped with federal airwaves and car-safety regulators and sued the Pentagon to gain access to military space contracts.
“He’s opening up a kind of new battleground in the D.C. tech wars,” said Jeff Chester, a veteran tech policy advocate and executive director of the digital rights group Center for Digital Democracy. “At the moment it’s been low-combat — but the Musk buyout of Twitter is going to transform the role of Twitter into an extremely contentious political debate.”
To help understand how Musk might approach his new role as Twitter’s owner, here is a list of Musk’s greatest hits in Washington:Musk landed in hot water with federal financial regulators in 2018 when they accused him of deceiving investors by tweeting — falsely — that he had. The claim drove up the luxury electric carmaker’s stock price.
“The SEC seems to be targeting Mr. Musk and Tesla for unrelenting investigation largely because Mr. Musk remains an outspoken critic of the government,” a lawyer for MuskHe has also potentially run afoul of the agency for how he has handled his takeover of Twitter. Once he did disclose his 9.2 percent stake, Twitter’s share price shot up to over $50 a share. On Monday, the company disclosed that it had agreed to let Musk buy it for $54.20 a share.Musk was even more aggressive in the way he elbowed his way into Pentagon contracts for his rocket company SpaceX — and even splashier in giving the company a starring role in the United States’ return to low-Earth orbit.
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