During an impromptu and newsmaking interview streamed on Twitter Spaces, Elon Musk challenged a BBC reporter to come examples of hate speech on the social media platform.
Relying on a legacy media narrative without evidence (to use one of the liberals’ favorite terms), the unprepared interviewer failed to name even one.
The reporter, James Clayton, initially claimed he personally saw an increase of hate speech on the Twitter “For You” feature, which he then sought to describe as “slightly racist” or “slightly sexist.”
Musk wasn’t haven’t having it.
When the Twitter boss asked the U.K. scribe if slightly sexist content should be banned, Clayton began backpedaling, claiming, in part, that he no longer uses that feature.
Upon questioning from Musk, Clayton couldn’t come up with example of hateful conduct.
“I say, sir, that you don’t know what you are talking about… because you cannot give me a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet. And yet you claimed that hateful content is high. That is false, you just lied…that is absurd,” Musk declared.
When Clayton tried to use the appeal-to-authority gambit, Musk replied that “people will say all sorts of nonsense.”
Since he was already in hot water, Clayton used the let’s-move-on technique to switch the topic to COVID misinformation.
Musk, the quirky and visionary billionaire who bought Twitter for $44 billion in the name of free speech, then called out the reporter for misinformation spread by the BBC.
“Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and side effects of vaccinations?”
Clayton again dodge: “Let’s talk about something else.”
Twitter now labels the accounts for the BCC and NPR, both of which have a conspicuous left-wing bias, as government-funded media.
Here is a link to the full interview.
