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Elon Musk’s X Jumps Into Sports Gambling Arena With BetMGM Pact (but Won’t Let You Place Bets Directly)


X, the social-media platform owned by Elon Musk, launched a new partnership with BetMGM to display betting odds to its users in the U.S.

Just days before the kickoff of this year’s Super Bowl, X, the social-media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk previously called , launched a new partnership to display betting odds to users in the U.S. Musk, the world’s richest person, says he overpaid in swinging the $44 billion deal for Twitter last year — which he rechristened X and has refashioned into his vision of what a “free speech” platform should be. In late October, just over a year after Musk closed the Twitter deal, X notified employees eligible for stock grants that they would receive shares at a valuation of $19 billion, down more than 50% from the transaction’s original value.

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