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I’m Staying on Twitter

October 31, 2022

Elon Musk with his mouth half open, his eyes glancing upward, and his arms spread

Elon Musk’s Disastrous Weekend on Twitter

Damon Beres and Charlie Warzel

October 31, 2022

How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter

October 27, 2022

An Unholy Alliance Between Ye, Musk, and Trump

October 21, 2022

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Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius

September 30, 2022

A photograph of Elon Musk covered in empty text-message bubbles

Elon Musk Is a ‘Nightmare Client’

July 14, 2022

Elon Musk's face, shot from a side angle, in front of a black background

Everything About Twitter v. Musk Is Utter Nonsense

July 13, 2022

Elon Musk Is Not Playing Four-Dimensional Chess

July 12, 2022

Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses

June 14, 2022

How to Fix Twitter and Facebook

Jonathan L. Zittrain

June 9, 2022

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Elon Musk Is Already Grinding Us Down

April 30, 2022

Elon Musk laughing

How, Exactly, Elon Musk Can Fix Twitter

April 28, 2022

Elon Musk Isn’t Buying Twitter to Defend Free Speech

April 27, 2022

Elon Musk Already Showed Us How He’ll Run Twitter

April 26, 2022

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The Elon Musk Placebo Effect

Kaitlyn Tiffany

April 26, 2022

A blue pill with Twitter icons suspended inside of it—likes, retweets, replies.

The Worst-Case Scenario for Elon Musk's Twitter

April 25, 2022

The Atlantic Daily: Three Possible Futures for a Musk-Owned Twitter

Rachel Gutman-Wei

April 25, 2022

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Elon Musk Buying Twitter Is Weird, Chaotic, and a Little Bit Awesome

April 25, 2022

Portrait of Elon Musk

Running Twitter Is Going to Disappoint Elon Musk

April 25, 2022

Elon Musk Is a Master of Pseudo-events

April 15, 2022

Elon Musk Is Fighting for Attention, Not Free Speech

April 14, 2022

Will Elon Musk Go Full Future-of-Civilization on Twitter?

April 14, 2022

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The Atlantic Daily: Elon Musk, Bullionaire

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

April 14, 2022

Elon Musk, Baloney King

April 14, 2022

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Of Course Elon Musk Wanted Twitter

April 5, 2022

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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

The War on Ukraine Is Testing the Myth of Elon Musk

February 28, 2022

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What’s Standing in Elon Musk’s Way?

February 11, 2022

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A Question Only Elon Musk Can Answer

September 22, 2021

An illustration depicting Elon Musk standing on top of the Earth

Elon Musk Is Not Just a Celebrity

Spencer Kornhaber

May 9, 2021

Elon Musk on the set of 'Saturday Night Live'

Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing

May 6, 2021

A collage of Elon Musk and the Starship prototype launching in South Texas

Elon Musk’s SNL Hosting Gig Is a Trap

April 28, 2021

Elon Musk set against a background of New York City skyscrapers

Not Everything Should Be a Moral Reckoning

Conor Friedersdorf

April 28, 2021

Mars Is a Hellhole

Shannon Stirone

February 26, 2021

Landscape of Mars's surface

Elon Musk’s Lesson in How Not to Celebrate Diversity

June 21, 2020

The Atlantic Daily: Elon Musk Comes Within 20 Minutes of History

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

May 27, 2020

The Cult of Elon Is Cracking

May 20, 2020

Elon Musk in front of a fractured photo of a planet