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THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2025
Elon Musk ‘jokes’ he will buy Coca-Cola and put cocaine back

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Hindustan Times
28 April, 2022, 09:20 am
Last modified: 28 April, 2022, 09:29 am

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Elon Musk ‘jokes’ he will buy Coca-Cola and put cocaine back

Hindustan Times
28 April, 2022, 09:20 am
Last modified: 28 April, 2022, 09:29 am
Photo: Collected
Photo: Collected

Elon Musk on Thursday tweeted he will next buy Coca-Cola and put the cocaine back in it triggering a frenzy on the social media platform, as much as coca-cola started trending on Twitter.

Musk's tweet comes after he bought 100% stake in Twitter for $44 billion.

In two hours, the tweet crossed 1 million likes, 200K retweets and 60K quote tweets.

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While the tweet read like a joke, social media users are not too sure as in 2017 Musk had once casually tweeted what would be the price of Twitter. And 5 years down the line, he has proposed to buy 100% stake in the company.

Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022

According to his agreement with Twitter, Musk can't tweet anything disparaging about Twitter. Rest all is allowed and hence the richest man in the world is talking a lot about other things, including what Twitter should be like. 

In his vision, Twitter should encourage free speech as permitted by the law of the land; it should be politically neutral as in, it has to be equally upsetting for the far right and the far left. On the security aspect, Elon Musk wants Twitter DMs to have end-to-end encryption like Signal so that no one can spy or hack personal messages.

Coming back to Coca-Cola, Musk made it clear that even if he buys the Atlanta company, it will be for the original recipe of the beverage, which had cocaine in it.

"But the soft drinks' company makes Twitter look like small-fry, with its market cap of $284 billion. Musk's own fortune currently stands at $253 billion — way ahead of his nearest rival Jeff Bezos, who's currently worth $162 billion," Bloomberg commented.

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