[ConcernedCitizen]

Elon sold about $8.5 billion in Tesla shares, in order to facilitate the buyout:
https://arstechnica.com/information-tech...tter-deal/

Leveraging stock in a car company, to buy out a social media company is definitely an odd move.

Very bold. We'll see how the buy goes in the coming days. He fulfilled the promise of making the source open to the world, at least. That's already a huge step. I didn't even know the company had a private repo until it was made public.