[RoyalHenOil]

In this case, at least, Musk leads Twitter only because he bought it, not because people were fooled by him. Everyone knew that it was a really bad idea. Even Musk himself knew: he tried to back out of the purchase at the last minute, but he did not have the legal grounds to do so.

[3cats-in-a-coat]

His Tesla wealth from which he sold shares in order to buy Twitter, his $13B lenders, and his co-investors at Twitter (which have /almost/ half the company) are already a mighty long list of people he fooled, and which enabled this purchase.