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Episode: ‘A total, miserable, self loathing poser’: The neuroscientist taking on Elon Musk
Description: Philip Low’s brain-mapping breakthrough made him a billionaire. Now a blistering Facebook post has thrust the neuroscientist into a new fight – with his old friend, Elon Musk. Low called Musk a “narcissist with an obsessive lust for power” in a post shared nearly 50,000 times before it mysteriously vanished. Now Low is claiming X and other social media platforms are silencing dissent, and has set aside US$250 million to test in court whether their promises of “free speech” are really false advertising. Today, veteran UK correspondent and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Paola...