Elon Musk calls BBC journalist 'liar' during live interview

Elon Musk calls BBC journalist 'liar' during live interview

The interview was reportedly taken Twitter's Elon Musk's San Francisco offices.

A video of Twitter CEO Elon Musk in which he has called a BBC journalist a 'liar' has gone viral. The Twitter Boss has also accused media of double standards and bias.

The incident took place during a live interview with BBC. Musk got angry when the journalist asked the Twitter Boss on how he plans to curb hate speech content on Microblogging site amid reports of staff shortage in his company.

To this, Musk asked the journalist to cite examples of hate content but he didn't do so. Then Musk responded saying, "What hate speech are you talking about? I mean, you use Twitter. Do you see a rise in hate speech? Just a personal anecdote?."

The interview was reportedly taken Twitter's Elon Musk's San Francisco offices. The Twitter boss apparently accused BBC journalist of lying when the scribe told Musk about the alleged rise in hate speech content on the platform.

The journalist told Elon Musk that he don't use the Twitter's "For You" feed anymore because he just don't like it and claimed many people do the same. He said he only look at his followers.

"I am asking you for one example and you can't give a single one. Then I say, sir, that you don't know what you are talking about. You cannot give me a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet. And yet you claimed that hateful content was high. That is false, you just lied," Elon Musk told BBC journalist.

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Twitter and BBC have been in a spat after the microblogging site labelled British broadcaster as 'State funded media'.

The BBC in its state said that it is and has been independent as it is funded by the British public through a licence fee.

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