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Elon Musk Speaks to the BBC

Americast

BBC

Government, News, Politics

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The multi-billionaire defended his ownership of Twitter in a last-minute interview live from the company’s Silicon Valley HQ.

This extra episode of Americast features his rollercoaster conversation with the BBC’s James Clayton in full.

It came out of an email exchange over the BBC’s labelling on Twitter as "government-funded media" – Musk replied himself and agreed to an interview "tonight".

Asked about the mass layoffs of Twitter staff, misinformation on the platform and his unusual work habits, Musk at times tries to do the interviewing himself and admits that owning Twitter has been "quite painful".

HOST: • James Clayton, BBC North America tech reporter

GUEST: • Elon Musk, Twitter CEO

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Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.8

Hello, Americaasters.

0:05.9

It's me, Marianne the Spring, AKA Misinformation,

0:09.8

and as well as our main episode of America's this week,

0:12.6

we're gonna be bringing you a bonus one

0:14.8

with a big interview that's happened

0:16.4

with someone we've chatted about a lot on America's,

0:19.2

Elon Musk.

0:20.2

He's the billionaire who bought Twitter

0:22.1

and ever since he took over at the end of last year,

0:24.9

I've been investigating the harm caused by that takeover

0:28.4

I've spoken to insiders still at Twitter,

0:30.7

who've left Twitter as well as users and looked at data,

0:33.8

which all suggests that Twitter is struggling to protect users

0:37.0

from harm compared to before,

0:39.4

and Twitter was never perfect.

0:41.6

I'd also been trying to speak to Elon Musk lots and lots

0:44.5

and lots.

0:45.3

I did a poll of vote on Twitter to try and catch his attention.

0:48.7

I turned up at the office in San Francisco.

0:51.1

I even found myself on his Twitter feed

0:53.8

after the investigation went live,

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