Elon Musk tweeted his first words since news broke on Monday that he purchased a 9.2% stake in the social media company.
“Oh hi lol,” Musk, now Twitter’s largest shareholder, said in a tweet.
The Tesla CEO owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission, valued at $2.89 billion based on Friday’s closing price.
Musk’s purchase, which caused shares to spike by 25% in premarket trade, comes shortly after he criticized the social media platform for not upholding free speech.
Following his three-word tweet, Musk tweeted a poll, asking Twitter users whether they’d like an “edit button,” while jokingly misspelling the “yes” button as “yse,” and the “no” button as “on.”
Musk posted a Twitter poll in March questioning whether the platform allows users to speak freely.
“Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” he wrote.
This is an excerpt from Fox News.
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