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Elon Musk deletes sexist tweets

31/10/2021 10:59 PM | Click to read full article

On Friday, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted an idea for a new university with a vulgar name.

It was a crude outburst, even by the billionaire’s often-childish standards, but several of his follow-up tweets appear to have crossed a line. The more disturbing of the since-deleted tweets implied in objectifying terms that at Musk’s new university, degrees would be awarded based on women’s physical characteristics.

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