Parmy Olson, Columnist

Musk Invites Trump to His Twitter Hellscape

Intoxicated with attention, Musk is heralding an era of more chaos and less money for Twitter.

November 20, 2022 at 4:38 PM UTC

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

A Jan. 5 tweet from Donald Trump is shown as the House select committee holds a public hearing investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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“Twitter is ALIVE.”

That was Elon Musk’s most recent Twitter post at the time of writing, several hours after announcing he would reinstate former President Donald Trump to the site.