Bill Gates on Musk, Twitter, and the conspiracy theorists that shout at him in public

pcgamer.com:

In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Bill Gates spoke on a range of topics including the various conspiracies about him, lies on the internet, and Elon Musk's proposed Twitter takeover, all of which have at least some degree of crossover. Gates has been on a round of interviews recently in order to promote his new book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.

Gates was once the richest person in the world: Now he's not, largely due to him leaving the business world in 2008 to focus on philanthropy. The richest person in the world now is the voluble Elon Musk who, when he's not trying to take over Twitter, posts juvenile insults about Gates.

in case u need to lose a boner fast pic.twitter.com/fcHiaXKCJiApril 23, 2022

Musk's beef with Gates is that the latter has taken a short position against Tesla, essentially betting that the electric car manufacturer is overvalued. An exchange of texts between the two was leaked to The New York Times, in which Musk asks Gates if he has a half-billion short position against Tesla, and Gates responds: «Sorry to say I haven't closed it out.»

Musk later confirmed the texts were authentic in a reply to the below tweet: «Yeah, but I didn't leak it to NYT. They must have got it through friends of friends. I heard from multiple people at TED that Gates still had half billion short against Tesla, which is why I asked him, so it's not exactly top secret.»

So apparently Bill Gates hit up @elonmusk to discuss “philanthropy on climate change” but Elon asked if he still had a half billion dollar short position on $TSLA. Bill said he hasn’t closed it out, so Elon told him to get lost. No idea if this is true lol pic.twitter.com/iuHkDG3bAdApril 22, 2022

Responding to a question about Musk's