‘Does BBC keep itself accountable?’: Elon Musk slams reporter all through interview
By India Today World Desk: Elon Musk slammed a BBC reporter all through an interview held on Twitter Spaces on Wednesday and accused the BBC of spreading “misinformation regarding masking and the side effects of vaccinations”. The BBC reporter requested Musk about Twitter eradicating the Covid-19 misinformation label when the Tesla CEO replied, “Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and the side effects of vaccinations?”
After grilling @elonmusk on lifting censorship, BBC turns to “COVID Misinformation”.
Musk proceeds to call the entire BBC to account for his or her disinformation on the virus, the vaccine, their collaboration with the federal authorities and failure to retract/acceptable the file.
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“What about the fact that the BBC was put under pressure by the British government to change editorial policy?,” Musk extra requested the reporter.
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Twitter eradicated its protection in direction of Covid-19 misinformation in November 2022, a month after Elon Musk bought the micro-blogging site for USD 44 billion.
On requested why the misinformation label was eradicated, Elon Musk replied, “Covid is no longer an issue”.
Musk moreover denied that there was an increase in hate speech on Twitter and accused the BBC reporter of lying. “You cannot give me a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet. You claimed that hateful content is high. That is false, you just lied,” Musk suggested the reporter.
Speaking on BBC’s “government funded media” label on Twitter, Musk said, “We want it to be as truthful and accurate as possible – we’re adjusting the label. I know the BBC wasn’t thrilled.” Twitter had designated the BBC as “government-funded media” which is state-financed nevertheless with editorial independence.
Since then, the label has been modified to “publicly funded media” after the BBC said it was in talks with the social media agency to “resolve the issue as soon as possible”.
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Published On:
Apr 13, 2023
