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Musk's Rants Rekindle Concern About CEO's Troublesome Tweets

  • In new posts, he revives old feud and denies report on crying
  • Pension-fund group expects ‘a shorter leash’ for top executive
Elon Musk Returns to Twitter and Raises Eyebrows(Source: Bloomberg)
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Just days after hastily abandoning a short-lived exploration of taking Tesla Inc. private, Elon Musk returned to Twitter to showcase the impulsiveness that’s raised the eyebrows of investors and regulators alike lately.

In a series of posts Tuesday, the unpredictable chief executive officer denied that he cried during a New York Times interviewBloomberg Terminal earlier this month. Musk then couldn’t resist trading barbs with a follower who criticized him for calling a cave explorer in Thailand a pedophile back in July.