Excruciating moment Elon Musk turns tables on BBC interviewer over ‘hate’ tweets

Listen to the moment Elon Musk turned the tables during his interview with BBC technology correspondent James Clayton over Twitter hate content.

The Twitter CEO spoke to the BBC in a wide-ranging interview, during which Mr Clayton said he had seen a rise in "hateful content" on the platform.

Frustrated by the lack of evidence to support the claim, Mr Musk told the BBC reporter that "you don't know what you're talking about".

Some studies suggest that hate speech has risen under Mr Musk's stewardship, including one led by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

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[MusicMatters]

This is hilarious. The BBC version edits all this out. Elon destroyed this BBC 'journalist'. Well done Elon👏👏👏

[taterboob]

“I don’t think this is going anywhere.”

Because you got caught, son.

[emozley]

Interviewer should have been embarrassed to be so utterly unprepared

[froggystyle]

People like me, here in the UK, are expected to pay a tax for this kind of "journalism".

[Hugo_Furst]

Journalism today is nothing more than giving your opinion, nothing factual. This guy is an excellent example of today's journalist..

[diogenes.]

My respect for Mr. Musk increased thousand times

[geno]

That man should be fired for being so unprepared. How embarrassing, stoked a fire then tries to run. SMH

[jameshumphries]

Elon is far too intelligent for him. Be careful who you take on.

[seandelap]

Well done to Elon for exposing these hacks and when challenged they clearly have no answer to their bs

[MrVara]

"Excruciating?" It was BEAUTIFUL!

[squash]

More people need to hold the media accountable.

[nickolazcarters]

That reporter literally talking to an ceo and still thinks he can twist the conversation.

[Lave]

This is a prime example of the arrogance of BBC reporting their whole attitude is if we say it then its true, just the slightest little push back and the reporter is flapping like a lost bird caught in the wind lol

[rodrigomoriki]

The interviewer is not smart enough to interview Elon.

[cynthiasolomon]

The most important part of the interview isn’t included in this excerpt. Where Musk asks the reporter about the bbc misinformation regarding Covid, and if they take responsibility for not covering risks associated with masking and c vaccines. That is the critical issue that is still being willfully ignored by most media.

[loetzcollector]

"The more a society moves away from the truth, the more the people who speak it shall be hated."
George Orwell

[niklazz]

When the journalist started stuttering because of his lack of knowledge for ONE example was where I got the popcorn out...

[petertep]

imagine spending all that money on a journalism degree and still being this terrible at your job

[davidadamvideo]

Could you imagine claiming someone’s platform has a bunch of hate speech on it, and then when they ask you about it you have no idea what hate speech is… ? 😂

[thomaskaspar]

1) The statistical likelihood of having a 1 on 1 chat with Musk is very, very low. How did this man land the interview? 2) I like how he tells Musk: "Let's move on. We only have a certain amount of time." Musk could have said, "No. You're interviewing me. Let's stay on this topic longer."