(San Francisco) Elon Musk assured in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday that the management of Twitter had been comparable to a “ roller coaster ” and admitted “ many mistakes ”, six months after having bought the company for 44 billion dollars. dollars.
“Are there many mistakes made along the way? Of course,” said Mr. Musk, owner of Twitter since late October. “But all’s well that ends well. I feel like we are headed in the right direction. He notably repeated that the company saw advertisers return and was “roughly at the break-even point”.
The billionaire entrepreneur was speaking in a surprise interview with the BBC overnight, from which the channel, which says it received an invitation from Mr. Musk “ at very short notice ”, published excerpts on its site on Wednesday morning .
Mr. Musk also said he would change the label assigned to the BBC on the platform, after the British channel complained of being branded “government-funded media”.
“We want to be as honest and accurate as possible – we are adjusting the (BBC) label to ‘publicly funded’,” assured the boss of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.
“The BBC is, and always has been, independent. We are funded by the British public via the license fee”, insisted the channel earlier this week.
Twitter had a few days ago renounced stamping the American public radio NPR as being an American “ media affiliated with the State ”, after the station’s protests.
The episode came days after Twitter stripped the New York Times of its account’s official certification, with Elon Musk accusing the major, reputedly progressive daily of “propaganda”.
Twitter’s famous blue mark, hitherto a symbol of recognition, will be reserved from April 20 for those who pay to use it.
The billionaire entrepreneur willingly shows contempt for the media. In recent times, questions from the press to the communication service of Twitter have been sent by automatic email, an emoticon in the shape of a turd.
Mr. Musk, who last month signed a call for a pause in next-generation AI research, also called on Wednesday for the creation of a regulator “to ensure that (this technology) does not present no danger to the public”.
