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Elon Musk Gets Defensive Over Twitter Meme As Harassment Report Surfaces

Elon Musk is getting riled up over a meme poking fun at his obsession with Twitter.

Elon Musk Gets Defensive Over Twitter Meme as Harassment Report Surfaces
Elon Musk Gets Defensive Over Twitter Meme as Harassment Report Surfaces

Elon Musk is getting riled up over a meme poking fun at his obsession with Twitter.

The Tesla Inc. chief tweeted that “Tesla is on my mind” 24/7 after the meme suggested the billionaire is neglecting the EV maker while pursuing his on-again, off-again $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc.

In the tweet Musk argues that he spends less than 5% of his time on his pursuit of the social media platform, despite a steady stream of tweets in past weeks that have up-ended markets and cast the landmark deal in doubt.

Musk’s defense came as another thorny issue made the rounds online: an Insider report that SpaceX -- another of the entrepreneur’s passions -- paid an employee $250,000 to settle a claim she was sexually harassed by Musk in 2016.

(Updates with Musk’s comments in the fourth paragraph)

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