Twitter CEO Elon Musk slams BBC reporter in surprise interview
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Summary
In this episode, I speak to a man who has been on the job for 6 months and has seen a lot of hateful content on his feed, but he can't name a single example of it. So how does he know it's hateful content?
Transcript
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Content you don't like or hateful? What do you mean to describe a hateful thing?
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Yeah, I mean, you know, just content that will solicit a reaction, something that may include something that is slightly racist or slightly sexist, those kinds of things.
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So you think if something is slightly sexist, it should be banned?
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I'm just curious. I'm trying to say what you mean by hateful content.
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And I'm asking for specific examples. And you just said that if something is slightly sexist, that's hateful content.
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Well, you've asked me whether my feed, whether it's got less or more, I'd say it's got slightly more.
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That's why I'm asking for examples. Can you name one example?
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I honestly don't. Honestly, I can't name a single example.
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I'll tell you why, because I don't actually use that for your feed anymore, because I just don't particularly like it.
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And actually, a lot of people are quite similar. I only look at my followers.
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Well, hang on a second. You said you've seen more hateful content, but you can't name a single example, not even one.
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I'm not sure I've used that feed for the last three or four weeks.
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Well, then how did you see the hateful content?
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Because I've been using Twitter since you've taken it over for the last six months.
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Okay, so then you must have at some point seen for you hateful content. I'm asking for one example.
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Then I say so that you don't know what you're talking about.
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Yes, because you can't give a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet.
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And yet you claimed that the hateful content was high.
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No, what I claim was there are many organizations that say that that kind of information is on the rise.
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I mean, like the Strategic Dialogue Institute in the UK, they will say that.
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I'm literally asking for a single example, and you can't name one.
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And as I've already said, I don't use that feed.
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You literally said you experienced more hateful content and then couldn't name a single example.
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Then how would you know this is hateful content?
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Because I'm saying that's what I saw a few weeks ago.