Elon Musk says he is in favour of free speech.

But it turns out if you say something he doesn’t like, he will sue you.

Fortune decided to do a deep dive into everyone Musk has sued over the last year … We found he has filed at least 23 lawsuits in federal courts alone since July of 2023.

Musk has been so legally aggressive that one judge decided his litigation was more about revenge than justice: “This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech,” the judge said...

New from me: a deep dive on why the media—and the New York Times in particular—were so slow to investigate the Wuhan lab linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.

🧵 The highlights:

3 sources told me they approached the NYT with evidence that a lab leak was plausible, but were ignored. Nicholas Wade, the NYT’s former science editor and a current writer for the paper, pitched a lengthy story about the lab’s history — but was shot down:

Alex Mashinsky has finally given his side of the story on the collapse of Celsius, the crypto exchange that held $40 billion at its peak … and he is blaming SBF and FTX. In a response to the NY lawsuit on securities law violations, @Mashinsky says: “The complaint...parrots misinformation online about Mashinsky and Celsius and borrows others’ baseless conclusions, demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of Celsius...and Mashinsky’s role."