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‘I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,’ Elon Musk tweeted on April 25, 2022 after the company’s board accepted his offer to buy the platform for $44 billion.
But on July 23, 2018, he was singing – or in this case, ringing – a different tune.
Lawrence Fossi was working as a portfolio manager in Manhattan at the time. That Monday would have been an otherwise unremarkable day at the office, but for a phone call from an irate – and litigious – Elon Musk.