Topic: Financial Institutions

Elon Musk reveals that his ultimate goal for Twitter is to execute a business plan he wrote in July 2000 for X.com. He intends to transform the platform into the "most valuable financial institution in the world," essentially building a superior version of PayPal. This long-term vision suggests that the social media aspect of Twitter is secondary to its potential as a global payments and banking system.

Large crowds in France have been filmed storming shopping malls without showing required sanitary passports, often outnumbering the police. In the United States, some individuals are beginning to boycott airlines and financial institutions that enforce vaccine mandates or de-platform users.