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Elon Muskhas jokes after buying Twitter this week.
Just days after the billionaire purchased the social network for $44 billion, he wrote in a post on the platform that he plans on buying Coca-Cola to “put the cocaine back in.”
The tweet quickly gained more than 3.8 million likes and hundreds of thousands of retweets since it was posted on Wednesday.
At the time, the DEA explained, cocaine was legal and a typical ingredient included in medicines. Many people falsely believed cocaine — a highly addictive and now-illegal drug that can lead to abnormal heart rates and deadly heart attacks, according to theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics— was safe to use in small amounts. The drug was removed from Coca-Cola’s formula around 1903, according toBritannica.
PEOPLE has contacted Coca-Cola for comment.
One Twitter user tweeted an edited picture of Musk saying he would buy McDonald’s to fix their ice cream machines, to which he replied “Listen, I can’t do miracles ok.”
So far, Musk seems to be enjoying his time as the new owner of Twitter and has tweeted about his plans toencrypt direct messageson the platform and make it “politically neutral.”
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in astatementafter buying the social network.
As of Thursday, Musk is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $253 billion, according to theBloomberg Billionaires Index.
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Although Twitter was initially expected to turn down Musk’sofferto buy the social platform,Reuters,The Wall Street JournalandThe New York Timesall reported over the weekend that both sides were close to reaching a deal.
The company began to warm up to Musk’s offer after the billionaire — who had not previously indicated how he would pay for the deal — shared he had already lined up financing,The Wall Street Journal reported.
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source: people.com
