• Elon Musk and President Joe Biden tweeted their support for the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl, typical posturing by powerful men scrounging for popular appeal.
• But for the Twitter CEO, the moment was apparently a high-stakes popularity contest.
• When Musk lost, he decided to rig the system as only an authoritarian billionaire social media executive could.
• The end result Monday was a new system designed to boost Musk’s tweets to the website’s entire user base.

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