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        <title><![CDATA[Elon Musk tweets that he and Bill Gates are not ‘lovers’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to a broadside from Bill Gates by <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1288729803663843329" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeting</a>&nbsp;&#8220;Billy G is not my lover,&#8221; and &#8220;The rumor that Bill Gates &amp; I are lovers is completely untrue.&#8221;</p><p>The late-Wednesday quip came after a Twitter user alerted him to <strong>a CNBC interview</strong> in which the 64-year-old Microsoft co-founder took issue with Musk&#8217;s attitude towards the coronavirus pandemic, which <strong>Musk called &#8220;dumb&#8221;</strong> in March.</p><p>&#8220;Elon&#8217;s positioning is to maintain a high level of outrageous comments,&#8221; Gates said in the interview. &#8220;He&#8217;s not much involved in vaccines. He makes a great electric car. His rockets work well, so he&#8217;s allowed to say these things. I hope that he doesn&#8217;t confuse areas he&#8217;s not involved in too much.&#8221;</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1288722245280464896" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The pinned &#8220;Billy G&#8221; tweet</a> on Musk&#8217;s page, which has 37.2 million followers, is surrounded by musical notes, a reference to Michael Jackson&#8217;s 1982 hit song &#8220;Billy Jean&#8221;.</p><p>Musk has been outspoken about the pandemic, saying on multiple occasions — including on a podcast interview with Joe Rogan — that false positives and incorrectly attributed causes of death were blowing concern over the virus out of proportion.</p><p>He railed against California health officials in May when Tesla&#8217;s Fremont factory was forced to shut down its production line in May under the state&#8217;s lockdown orders, eventually <strong>daring the state to arrest him</strong> if it tried to intervene in the plant&#8217;s reopening.</p><p>It&#8217;s not the first time that Musk and Gates — the No. 8 and No. 2 richest men in the world, respectively, with a combined fortune of $183 billion — have butted heads.</p><p>Gates earlier this year revealed that he had purchased his first electric car, a Porsche, adding that he felt consumers still need to &#8220;overcome that range anxiety&#8221; in order for electric vehicles to hit the mainstream and help battle climate change.</p><p>&#8220;My conversations with Gates have been underwhelming tbh,&#8221; <strong>Musk responded</strong>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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