https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/25/elon-musk-buys-twitter-for-44b-and-will-take-it-private/

By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN

Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion on Monday, promising a more lenient touch to policing content on the social media platform where he — the world’s richest person — promotes his interests, attacks critics and opines on a wide range of issues to more than 83 million followers.