The world's second richest man, Elon Musk, is again in the news for his management of Twitter. He's bringing a far-right US television personality, Tucker Carlson, onto his platform as he attempts to turn the social media site into a video-sharing platform. Carlson was fired from Fox News last month, in the wake of a $787 million settlement the US channel paid out to a voting machine company over false 2020 election claims, many of them made by Carlson himself. But Musk is betting that controversy surrounding Carlson will bring users to Twitter, the platform he paid $44 billion to purchase last year with the help of money from Silicon Valley and Gulf investors. He also leveraged his own Tesla stock, but its value has cratered over the last year.

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