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Host of YouTube channel Dave Lee on Investing, TSLA investor since 2012, building with AI.

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@heydave7
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Championing free speech by efforts like @elonmusk is more crucial than ever. As AI gets more powerful and governments increasingly use AI in the name of "security," our personal liberties and rights face existential risk. Societies who have weak values regarding personal…
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Epic. @elonmusk @joerogan @jordanbpeterson in front of a Cybertruck at the new Tesla Austin factory. Would love to see a podcast episode with those three altogether.
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RIP His name was Kona. 14 years. Fighter till the end.
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I’m camping at a remote state park this week with no cell reception. None of my hotspots work (Verizon, AT&T, T-mobile). So set up Starlink and like magic - high speed internet(!). Starlink is changing the game. @elonmusk
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3 years
I propose @elonmusk to form a holding company called X. X's mission is to ensure human survival and progress. X becomes parent company of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and Boring Company. Elon, what do you think? 🙏
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Do you like @elonmusk 's political tweets?
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We’re on the cusp of something big, really big - namely the emergence of AI-powered robots that will be able to do most of what humans do but better. This is both exciting and concerning. @elonmusk @tesla
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3 years
If you missed it this is the sticker on @elonmusk ’s gaming laptop. Yes that’s a dog on a dollar bill.
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How much is that Doge in the window?
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@heydave7
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Just found out my wife has breast cancer. We're going to get through this. Your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated. 🙏
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2 years
NEWS: This morning @elonmusk sent an email to Tesla employees. “I have infinitely more respect and admiration for you than the richest person on Wall St.” … he even signed the email with a 💕 emoji. Classic Elon. 😎
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So is @elonmusk going to start a new social media platform?
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At some point, and I'm not sure when that exactly will be, Tesla will likely become more of an AI company than a car company. @elonmusk
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Lawyer for Sergey Brin's wife Nicole Shanahan backs @elonmusk saying, "Make no mistake, any suggestion that Nicole had an affair with Elon Musk is not only an outright lie but also defamatory." Yet @wsj says "We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting." 🤦🏻‍♂️
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@elonmusk Will this be explained in a new Twitter Files part?
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3 years
Which is longer? 🤣 @elonmusk
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2 years
Here's a breakdown of @elonmusk 's tax rate when exercising his stock options. Federal: 37% California: 13.3% Medicare: 1.45% Medicare Supplemental: 0.9% Total: 52.65% At $1050 stock price, Elon’s 22.8m exercised shares would be worth $24B. Government would net $12.6B.
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Big changes coming to Twitter! @elonmusk
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Elon Musk: We’re working on a product that will be larger than the current economy. Wall Street: Whatever. Sell the stock.
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Have to admit it’s quite entertaining to see @elonmusk shake things up at Twitter.
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2 years
Moody’s claim that Tesla is “not investment grade” is 🤯. Even more ridiculous is them doubling down on junk credit rating claiming Tesla doesn’t have enough vehicle models. Fewer models = innovate more quickly on those models with more focus. Intentional strategy by @elonmusk .
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📣 Kudos to Moody's for answering my email. As to the content ... Help me please with ideas how to answer to Rene.
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(Generally speaking) the world is sleeping on what Tesla is doing with FSD Beta and the progress that is being made. When you compare FSD Beta now to where it was one year ago, the improvement is astounding. Imagine where it will be in another year. @elonmusk
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Congrats @SpaceX and @elonmusk for winning the $2.9B NASA contract to send humans back to the moon! 🚀
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Here's @elonmusk describing that he has a plan B if Twitter rejects his buyout offer.
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Dear @Hertz , you’re messing up. I was renting two Tesla Model 3 vehicles at John Wayne airport in CA yesterday for 1+ months each and both cars didn’t have the mobile charging cables. The employee said only 1 out of 10 Teslas come with a charger cable because customers don’t…
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3 years
Only @elonmusk and $TSLA’s master of coin would do this… 42,069 Bitcoins x $35,040 ($BTC close price on 6/30) = $1.474B… or rounded to $1.47B as disclosed in their 10-Q
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If you missed TSLA's earnings, the highlight was @elonmusk sharing in the call that he thinks Tesla's Model Y will become the top-selling vehicle of any kind in 2022 or 2023. World's top-selling car currently is Corolla at 1.5m units/year. 😮
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“Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment and an email to Twitter’s communications department was returned with a poop emoji.” 💩😂
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2 years
Q: "There's a whole generation coming through that seem really sad about the future. What would you say to them?" - @TEDchris A: "Well I think if you want the future to be good you must make it so. Take action to make it good, and it will be." - @elonmusk
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Artificial intelligence, the mother of all technology S-curves.
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@elonmusk Are people too pessimistic about the future, thus having less kids? Is part of the solution inspiring people to become more optimistic about the future?
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@elonmusk @dogecoin_devs Curious what are your thoughts on Ethereum 2.0, Cardano, Solana, Polkadot, IOTA and others that are trying to scale with low fees? What makes you choose Doge over them?
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Twitter CEO manually deleting impersonators on @elonmusk ’s tweets to save his job.
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If Tesla released a van I think it would become an instant hit. I can just imagine all the vanlifers who make it their home.
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@elonmusk Change your Twitter profile name to Elona for a few days. 😆
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I think it's possible that @elonmusk was shown a better-than-expected super early humanoid robot prototype by his team, perhaps one that can walk + rough port of FSD. Made it obvious to him that Tesla needs to double down on this.
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@elonmusk @TeslaPodcast I’m in! 👍🏻
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Can’t believe @elonmusk actually announced Tesla is going to be building a humanoid robot. 🤯
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2 years
The more I look through the court docs filed yesterday the more I think @elonmusk will prevail against the SEC.
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@elonmusk Will Tesla cars get this feature too in the future to connect directly to Starlink satellites for emergency calls/texts?
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The battle over the mind. That is the great battle of our times.
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3 years
August 19, 2021. This day goes down in history as when @elonmusk announced Tesla Bot at Tesla AI Day. We'll look back in 10 years and understand how significant today really was.
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These ads are extremely distasteful, mean, manipulative, and untrue. I hope she loses her Senate seat in 2024.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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"I'm surprised people do not realize the magnitude of the Optimus robot program.... Those who are insightful or who listen carefully will understand that Optimus ultimately will be worth more than the car business and worth more than FSD, that’s my firm belief." - @elonmusk
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@RealDanODowd @nytimes @Tesla @RealDawnProject @elonmusk I think it's only fair and honest for you to disclose which Tesla competitors your company Green Hills Software have taken money from.
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Elon Musk says he won’t sell any more $TSLA stock for next 18-24 months or until 2025 sometime.
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Elon Musk’s security detail. 💪🏻
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How is @POTUS @VP appointing someone with such bias against Tesla and @elonmusk as senior advisor to NHTSA? 🤯
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3 years
I think Biden didn’t invite @elonmusk to today’s party because Technoking is technically a higher position than President. 😂
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2 years
@elonmusk Twitter DMs have huge potential to become a full-fledged messaging app. End-to-end encryption would be amazing.
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1 year
Like this tweet if you think @elonmusk should have been invited to this table.
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3 years
Hey @elonmusk , I suggest that SpaceX have an internal documentary team (could be just one person) that films progress (and challenges/struggles) and creates a documentary every quarter. Would be great to inspire people all over the world.
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1 year
This AI-generated image is from MidJourney v5 alpha. Huge jump from v4. The pace of AI development right now is insane.
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@elonmusk @WholeMarsBlog Wow then the @wsj journal just ran the craziest hit piece ever. Shameless. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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TLDR; @elonmusk saying FSD/Robotaxi will make Tesla's current financials look like nothing. And then Tesla Optimus Bot will make FSD/Robotaxi financials look like nothing. Wow. 🤯
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1 year
With the help of generative AI, here are several concepts of a Tesla Semi RV. First up, the Tesla RV Zion edition. Comfortable fits family of 4. Hot or not?
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To clarify, I don’t think Elon would ever sell any his Doge holdings. He’s the ultimate hodler.
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"SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and Boring Company are philanthropy. If you say philanthropy is love of humanity, they ARE philanthropy." - @elonmusk
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Should Twitter allow Donald Trump back on its platform? @elonmusk
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I'm headed back to Austin tomorrow. It's been an eventful past 6 months. It started with embarking on an around-the-world trip with my wife and kids - taking us to Hawaii, Korea, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Hungary... and then suddenly discovering my wife has breast cancer. Everything…
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Will you follow @elonmusk to a new social media platform if he starts one?
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The hands! 🙌
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@elonmusk Wow, can't wait! Will you show a sneak preview of Tesla Bot? 🙏🏻
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$TSLA just hit a $1 trillion market cap today. 🥂
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It’s my investment manager’s birthday today. I’ve been thrilled with his performance over the past 10 years of managing my assets. Happy birthday @elonmusk ! 😎
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$TSLA the trillion dollar company that doesn’t do any paid advertising. 🤯
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What happened to the argument that $TSLA loses money on every car it sells? 🤣
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@elonmusk It’s unfortunate that most of your companies are private and people can’t invest in them. I understand why they are private though.
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Wow, that was one of the most interesting $TSLA earnings calls of all-time. Elon Musk every few minutes: you guys aren't getting the implications of FSD. This changes everything. Literally everything.
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I just took delivery of a new Model Y yesterday. Such thought and care put into designing and making that car. Very impressed @elonmusk .
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Tesla has braved the German bureaucracy and has come out victorious. 😂 Congrats @Tesla on getting final approval for Giga Berlin! 🎉
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Elon Musk: The most important product development of Tesla this year is the Optimus humanoid robot. Has opportunity to be more significant than autos over time. 🤯
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Hey @elonmusk , please let TSLA shareholders know once you're done selling.
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Tesla's FSD v12 for the first time will use an "end-to-end" neural network approach to autonomous driving. This is NOT just an incremental update; it's a paradigm shift. Let's explain. End-to-end Neural Networks for Autonomous Driving In an end-to-end system, the input…
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Why would Bill Gates have a $500M short position against $TSLA? 🤔
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Elon Musk
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@WholeMarsBlog Yeah, but I didn’t leak it to NYT. They must have got it through friends of friends. I heard from multiple people at TED that Gates still had half billion short against Tesla, which is why I asked him, so it’s not exactly top secret.
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We're finally going to get an edit button. Just cost @elonmusk $44 billion, that's all. 😂
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Tesla Model Y that looks slightly more like an SUV (boxy rear) than a larger Model 3. What do you think?
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Insane that a shareholder with 9 TSLA shares can cause so much work for @elonmusk , Tesla board, and their lawyers.
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A person transports boxes with documents for the trial of Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, regarding his Tesla pay package at the Delaware Court of Chancery in Wilmington, Delaware 📷 @evelynpix
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3 years
This guy needs to understand @elonmusk assets are almost completely in TSLA and SpaceX equity and that those companies are doing more for humankind than most governments.
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Last week, Elon Musk's net worth increased by $6.35 billion in one day. If this doesn’t convince you wealth inequality is out of control, I don’t know what will.
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I think @elonmusk is making a huge point here. He's saying NHTSA will look at the data (and not FUD/media/politicians/etc) when it comes time to approve unsupervised FSD. In other words, FUD won't derail Tesla's Robotaxi plans since data will win out.
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@thesheetztweetz FCC is fair & sensible. NHTSA & FAA too. 99.9% of the time, I agree with regulators! On rare occasions, we disagree. This is almost always due to new technologies that past regulations didn’t anticipate.
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@elonmusk Using Starlink right now to tweet this from a remote state park in Oregon that has no cell reception. Thanks @spacex team!
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@elonmusk Will you give a chance for regular folk to invest in the Boring company?
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If @elonmusk buys Twitter I'm confident that he'll figure out a non-advertising based business model that works. And even though he's not doing it for the $, I do think he'll be able to significantly increase the valuation of Twitter over time (ie., 10x in 10-15 years).
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Here's the full text of @elonmusk 's email sent to Tesla employees last night. Elon making moves to decrease size of end-of-quarter delivery wave. Less attention given to quarterly earnings now that Tesla has been killing it every quarter. via @DriveTesla1
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Investing in Tesla is investing in the future of physical world AI.
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Whenever you see TSLA stock price who is still multiplying it by 3 to get old stock price? 🙋🏻‍♂️
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@elonmusk Can someone explain to me why Elon is tweeting about Dogecoin so often?
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"Since the team could see me sleeping on the floor during shift change, they knew I was there. It made a huge difference. They gave it their all." - @elonmusk on why Tesla's Fremont/Nevada factories were his primary residence for 3 years straight.
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NEWS: @elonmusk sends second email to “be super clear” that remote work is not acceptable at Tesla and working in-person crucial to making “the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth.” (Including original email as well)
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2 years
Questions I'd love to ask @elonmusk about his insistence to "drive" almost all new programs at Tesla.
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@heydave7 I’m driving this program personally, as is the case for almost all new programs
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@elonmusk Will the Optimus prototype look the same (or at least very similar) to the display model at the Giga Texas opening?
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Here are 6 Facebook ads that @SenWarren is running against @elonmusk . 1/ calling Elon a whining baby and scared.
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Wow! Tesla SMASHED Q4 delivery numbers with 308.6k vehicles delivered (305.8k produced). 🤯 Q4 earnings in a few weeks is going to be insane - record revenue, record margins, record profits. Congrats to everyone at @tesla for never ceasing to amaze.
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I looked forward to watching @pakpakchicken ’s videos. Will miss his presence on YouTube. 😢
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3 years
$10,000 worth of $TSLA stock purchased 9 years ago is now worth $2 million.
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Congrats $TSLA shareholders. 🚀
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I woke up early this morning still half asleep, asking myself if I’m in a dream or not and does my wife have cancer or not. After several seconds, I realized it’s not a dream. My wife was diagnosed with cancer almost a week ago. Later today we get the biopsy pathology report.
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"But Elon gets to keep 52.65% of the 101M shares"... Yes but those shares will be taxed at Elon's death (if not sold earlier). Current estate tax rate 40% (and likely will be higher in future). So, all in all, government will take 69M out of the 101M shares (68.4%).
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In todays news Consumer Reports discovered that if you completely cover the Tesla interior camera with tape the camera won’t work. Discovery was confirmed by CNBC. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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So I guess @TheBabylonBee is going to get their Twitter account back. 😉 @elonmusk
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