Elon Musk’s Newly Acquired Stake in Twitter is Even Bigger Than its Co-founder and Former CEO Jack Dorsey

Elon Musk’s Newly Acquired Stake in Twitter is Even Bigger Than its Co-founder and Former CEO Jack Dorsey

​Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk purchased 73,486,938 shares of social media platform Twitter, equal to roughly a 9.2% stake in the company. Musk’s major purchase of Twitter shares was revealed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) filing on Monday. It’s unclear what Musk’s intentions are for the investment, but the mercurial Chief Executive of the world’s most valuable car company has complained recently that Twitter is censoring free speech.