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Entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk is the co-founder and chief executive of Tesla. In 2022, Musk bought Twitter and in 2023 changed the platform's name to X. In November 2024, President-elect Donald Trump named Musk to co-lead a new Government Efficiency Department.
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