“You Simply Lied,” Elon Musk Tells BBC Reporter In Interview

The journalist requested Mr Musk how he deliberate to deal with incidents of hate speech being reported on Twitter.

New Delhi:

Twitter CEO Elon Musk accused a BBC journalist of mendacity when the latter did not cite examples of hate speech being allowed on the social media platform.

In a wide-ranging interview, the BBC journalist requested Mr Musk how he deliberate to deal with incidents of hate speech being reported on Twitter amid claims of employees scarcity to police hateful content material. When Mr Musk requested the journalist to quote some examples of hate speech on Twitter, he declined to take action.

“What hate speech are you speaking about? I imply, you employ Twitter. Do you see an increase in hate speech? Only a private anecdote? I do not,” Mr Musk mentioned.

BBC ‘journalism’ at its best 🤦🏻‍♂️

BBC Journo: “There’s been an increase in hatful content material on Twitter.”@elonmusk: “Give me an instance.”
Journo: “I am unable to.”
Musk: “You simply lied.” pic.twitter.com/wOfzn5vGfJ

— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) April 12, 2023

“Actually, I do not. I do not really use that feed anymore as a result of I simply do not significantly prefer it,” mentioned the journalist on Twitter’s ‘For You’ characteristic. “And really lots of people are fairly comparable. I solely have a look at my followers.”

“I am asking for one instance and you may’t give a single one. Then I say, sir, that you do not know what you might be speaking about. You can not give me a single instance of hateful content material, not even one tweet. And but you claimed that hateful content material was excessive. That’s false, you simply lied,” Mr Musk replied.

Twitter lately labelled the BBC as a “government-funded media”,  resulting in a pointy response from the British public broadcaster. 

“The BBC is, and all the time has been, unbiased. We’re funded by the British public via the licence price,” a press release from the BBC learn.

On Wednesday, Mr Musk mentioned on Twitter Areas, that he didn’t know “what precisely occurred” when content material associated to a BBC documentary crucial of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was taken down from the microblogging website. 

“I’m not conscious of this specific scenario… do not know what precisely occurred with some content material scenario in India,” Mr Musk mentioned. “The principles in India for what can seem on social media are fairly strict and we won’t transcend the legal guidelines of the nation.”

The federal government had requested Twitter to take down over 50 tweets carrying hyperlinks to the BBC documentary on PM Modi.

“If we have now a selection of both our folks go to jail or we adjust to the legal guidelines, we’ll adjust to the legal guidelines…” Mr Musk mentioned.