{"product_id":"extremely-hardcore-inside-elon-musks-twitter-3","title":"Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter","description":"\"Schiffer offers a detailed look under the smoke-filled hood... deploying a crisp, matter-of-fact style to excellent effect.\" — The New York Times\n\n\"A sharp and deeply sourced fly-on-the-wall account... packed with original reporting.\" — Financial Times\n\nBefore he conceived of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk flexed his control and influence during his unprecedented, $44 billion buyout of Twitter. This is the stunning true story of how Musk managed to upend the world's largest free speech platform through sheer, unilateral force—and what that means for the protection of power in the modern age.\n\nWhen Elon wrested the app formerly known as Twitter out of the hands of its investors in 2023, his goals for what was previously known as the world’s digital town square were rooted in his fervent belief in the necessity of making Twitter friendlier to free speech. \"I didn’t do it to make more money,” Musk insisted. “I did it to try and help humanity, whom I love.”\n\nExtremely Hardcore is the true story of how Musk reshaped the world’s online public square into his own personal megaphone in an unprecedented, unsolicited, and unilateral buyout. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with more than sixty employees and thousands of pages of internal documents and Slack messages, WIRED journalist Zoë Schiffer delivers the singularly gripping, blow-by-blow saga of the infighting, mass layoffs, and culture wars that followed.\n\nMore than just a corporate saga, Extremely Hardcore is a high-stakes story of power, obsession, and ego—an unfiltered look at what happens when the world’s richest man buys one of its most influential platforms and bends it to his will.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0593716604\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0593716604.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Schiffer, Zoë\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47804553035953,"sku":"RDV.0593716604.VG","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0593716604-0_fd61a7b8-eb3b-4f2c-ab89-6f9336fbc79e.jpg?v=1785630631","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/extremely-hardcore-inside-elon-musks-twitter-3","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}