Twitter boss Elon Musk: What you need to know

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Twitter boss Elon Musk: What you need to know
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Electric cars, space travel and Twitter - meet the very rich man with very big plans for them all.

He's rich, owns Twitter and wants to get to Mars. Now he's feuding with Apple about advertising. If you're not up to date with Elon Musk's colourful history, here's what you need to know.Elon Musk's fortune is guessed to be worth about $200 billion - a little more than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But that doesn't mean all that money is sitting in his bank account - the amount is worked out based on things he owns and what his companies are worth.

Musk joined Twitter's management in March 2022 but disagreed a lot with its top bosses - so decided to buy the whole company. It was messy - Twitter rejected his offer, then accepted it, then Musk tried to pull out. In the end, the sale was sorted out just days before a big court battle.He said he bought Twitter to protect free speech - so he's already restored the accounts of controversial banned users such as Donald Trump.

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