In an ostensibly spontaneous hot audience with the BBC on Twitter Spaces yesterday , Elon Musk has spoken about his helter-skelter putsch of Twitter , revealing all kinds of insights about launch the social mass medium platform ( like the fact he sleeps on a couch in the office and his dog is the CEO ) and his determination to buy it .
In the cringe - riddledinterview , Musk touched on thehugely controversiallay - offs that has resulted in Twitter sacking around 80 per centum of its staff . He also call run Twitter “ quite painful , ” add “ It ’s been really quite a nerve-wracking situation , over the last several months . Not an easy one . ”
" Were there many mistake made along the way ? Of naturally , " he continued .
However , he champion the conclusion to make the large - scale job cut , tell Twitter had “ four months to live ” when he bought it and had few options go out on the table .
“ This is not a caring / uncaring situation . It ’s like , if the whole ship dip , then nobody ’s got a chore , ” Musk said .
He then dodged a question from the BBC ’s James Clayton asking whether he could use his status as theplanet ’s rich humanto support the company .
The audience was interlaced with numerous jest that played to Musk ’s loyal hoards of follower . One jewel included him saying : “ I keep telling you I ’m not the CEO of Twitter , my frank is the CEO of Twitter . ”
Muskalso stated that he was essentially forced to buy Twitter . He take he initially want to corrupt Twitter for a certain price , but then discover more automated bot on the web than he expected , so he ask for a depleted price . By this item , however , the ball was roll up and he had to fill in the deal due to effectual challenge .
He subsequently articulate in the conversation that he would n’t trade the fellowship though , even if offered what he had paid for the company .
The chat took a confrontational turn when Musk was asked whether his lax approach to security review could ensue in more hate speech and misinformation . Musk demanded Claytoncite an example , which he could n’t do on the billet . “ You said you seemore hateful content , but you ca n’t even name a exclusive one , ” Musk sound out . “ You just lied ! ”
Musk then fetch up the BBC ’s COVID reportage andalleged pressurefrom the British government to change editorial insurance policy . The BBC is one of a few medium companionship that had been labeled by Musk ’s Twitter as " state - affiliated media " . Due to being incorrect , this was changed to " government - fund medium " , which , for the BBC at least , has now been changed to " publicly funded " . NPR , which has a small fraction of its funding from the US government has left Twitter after being mark government - funded , claiming it was deceptive .
No doubt await to hush up some critics , Musk suggested that Twitter was now on the up and the company is " more or less " breaking even .
Many of the claims in the consultation , such as Twitter ’s fiscal fortunes , have been hard to severally assert . But then again , as Musk said himself : “ One individual ’s misinformation is another soul ’s information . ”
