‘You Can’t Name a Single Example’: Elon Musk Torches BBC Reporter Who Claims ‘Hateful’ Twitter Content Increasing
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday poked holes in a BBC reporter’s suggestion that there is more hateful content on the social-media app since Musk’s takeover.
The reporter, James Clayton, could not name a single example of hateful content he’d seen on the site.
Musk asked Clayton to describe what he considers “hateful content.” Clayton offered a definition: “Content that will solicit a reaction. Something that may include something that is slightly racist or slightly sexist. Those kinds of things.”
“So you think if something is slightly sexist, it should be banned?” Musk asked.
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