Reuters Elon Musk and Jon Stewart traded barbs in a social media spat which saw the billionaire and late-night host repeatedly fling insults at each other. The exchange between the pair, who are worlds apart politically, began when Musk reacted critically to a segment on Stewart’s The Weekly Show about the effect that X has had on democracy. Musk bought X for about $44 billion in 2022 under the guise of facilitating free speech, or, as he put it , “upsetting the far right and the far left equally.” Read more at The Daily Beast.