https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/25/reports-musks-bid-to-buy-and-privatize-twitter-heats-up/ > TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN > Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter is gaining steam and could be announced as early as Monday, according to media reports about the social media company’s late-stage negotiations with the Tesla CEO, who has offered more than $40 billion to privatize the platform and pledged to be more lenient when it comes to policing users’ speech.