The announcement of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter sparked an active debate over the future of the platform.

Even the US government has weighed in and expressed “concern about the power of big social media”.

But the $ 44 billion forecast also revealed the controversial “Twitter story” of a billionaire businessman of South African descent.

Since joining the platform in 2009, Musk has been in frequent trouble and has repeatedly sued.

Here are some of the most controversial tweets from the nearest new Twitter owner.

1. Rescue the Thai cave boys

In 2019, Elon Musk was sued for defamation after he called British diver Vernon Unsworth As a “pedophile” On Twitter; The post was later deleted.

Unsworth gained international popularity a year earlier after trying to save 12 teenagers when they were trapped in an underground cave in Thailand.

Musk tried to help with the operation and wanted to donate a mini submarine.

Instead, he got into a word war on social media with Unsworth after a diver turned down an offer and called it a “PR trick.”

After Musk’s comments, Unsworth sued him for defamation and He demanded $ 190 millionBut a Los Angeles court ruled in favor of the businessman.

Unsworth’s lawyer at the time, Lynn Wood, said:This judgment sends a signal... that you can make any accusation, whatever you want, no matter how disgusting and wrong, and let someone get away with it.

2. Reactions to covid-19

When Covid-19 infections spread around the world in March 2020 and little was known about the disease, Elon Musk did not punch him when criticizing measures such as Locked up and called the coronavirus panic “stupid.”

In one of his tweets on this topic, published on June 30 of the same year, Musk questioned the criteria for determining whether someone had died from a new coronavirus.

The businessman, who is being vaccinated against Covid-19, has publicly opposed the vaccination obligation and angered Jewish organizations compared to the Prime Minister of Canada. Justin Trudeauwith Adolf Hitler Canadian trucks protest against mandatory inoculation.

3. At the height of Putin

There was a lot of passionate reaction from public figures to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Elon Musk’s reaction was certainly one of the most peculiar.

On March 14, the businessman wrote on Twitter and challenged the Russian president to a duel. Vladimir Putin.

“I invite Vladimir Putin to a lone battle. Ukraine is at stake. “

He later went directly to the official account of the Russian president and repeated the invitation once again. Putin, Judo Black Belt, Did not answer.

4. Insult to the President of the United States.

Elon Musk has acquired his assets from many companies, including the electric car factory Tesla, which has become a leading player in the business.

In January last year, the billionaire looked irritated by the comments of the US President. Joe BidenOn the production of electric vehicles in the United States in which Tesla is not mentioned and its competitors.

“Biden is a wet sock doll in human form“, – he wrote on Twitter.

5. Tesla damage by tweet

Shares of Tesla fell nearly 5% in November last year after a businessman conducted a Twitter poll on whether to sell a stake in the company; In fact, 58% of the 3.5 million voters who voted said they should.

In May 2020, Musk caused even more unrest by posting on Twitter what he thought The stock price of the company was “too high”.

The comment removed $ 14 billion from Tesla’s market value.

6. And recently … he’s a Coca-Cola joke

Elon Musk’s latest Twitter controversy, which began after he announced a deal to buy the company, caused a stir.

On Wednesday, he jokingly announced plans Buy a Coca-Cola company to be able to add cocaine To the world’s most famous soft drink formula.

The original drink, invented in 1885 by the American pharmacist John Pemberton, contained coca leaf extract. According to the U.S. National Drug Institute, cocaine was legal at the time and was a common ingredient in medications.

This substance was later removed from the drink and had not been an ingredient since 1929.

While Muskie’s 87.4 million followers responded positively to the post, others criticized what they called a reference to drugs.

This was not the first time a businessman has had trouble with illegal substances.

Commented in a video interview with podcaster Joe Rogan In 2018, Elon Musk smoked marijuana. They were in California at the time, where the drug is legal, but critics argued that it did not look good.