{"id":1914034,"date":"2023-04-13T03:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T07:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-stumps-bbc-reporter-you-just-lied\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T03:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T07:45:20","slug":"elon-musk-stumps-bbc-reporter-you-just-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-stumps-bbc-reporter-you-just-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Stumps BBC Reporter: &#8216;You Just Lied&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-stumps-bbc-reporter-you-just-lied%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1914034&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p><span>During an interview with the BBC, Elon Musk disputed a reporter&#8217;s claim that hate speech is on the rise on Twitter, demanding evidence of just one example. When asked by reporter James Clayton about Twitter&#8217;s ability to address hateful content with their current staffing levels, Musk demanded a specific example of such content. The reporter could not provide one, leading Musk to accuse him of lying, as he claimed that hate speech is not prevalent on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This interview exemplifies the contentious relationship between the CEO of Twitter and major news outlets, with Musk previously referring to the BBC as &#8220;government-funded media.&#8221; However, during the interview, Musk promised to re-label the company as &#8220;publicly funded.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Twitter has reduced its workforce by 6,500 employees since Musk took control and has been successful in cutting operating costs. Musk also mentioned that they are breaking even and advertisers are starting to return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition, Musk has reportedly blocked tweets linking to Substack, a competitor to Twitter\u2019s platform, after they introduced Notes, a similar feature. Furthermore, Twitter currently labels National Public Radio as &#8220;government-funded media,&#8221; and the New York Times lost its verified status on the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk stumped a BBC reporter after calling out his &#8220;false&#8221; claim that hate speech has increased on Twitter, demanding he provide an example. When BBC reporter James Clayton asked during a Tuesday interview for Musk\u2019s response to claims that Twitter is understaffed to address hateful content, which the reporter said was &#8220;on the rise,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":1914035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[14958,4249,5450,4250,5046,16599,6540],"class_list":["post-1914034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-bbc","tag-elon","tag-lied","tag-musk","tag-reporter","tag-stumps","tag-you"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}