Musk BBC interview

Musk is interviewed by James Clayton of the BBC, at Twitter HQ, in San Franscisco. The interview primarily covers Musk’s work at Twitter. Musk says that he only went through with the takeover because a judge was about to force him to make the purchase, but that he still felt that buying the company was the right thing to do. Operationally, he says that cuting the workforce has not been easy, but usage of the site is up and the ‘site works’, despite some glitches and outages. The firm is “roughly breaking even”, as most of its advertisers have returned. He said he would sell the company if the right person came along.

When asked about hateful content on the platform, Musk asks Clayton if he has seen any, to which Clayton replies that he hasn’t seen any, because he doesn’t use Twitter any more. Musk:

You say you’ve seen more hateful content, but you can’t name a single example. Even one…Then I say, sir, that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Musk also says he would change its newly-added label for the BBC’s account from “government funded media” to say it is “publicly funded” instead.