well, who is to say that something is misinformation? who is the arbiter of that? is that the bbc? are you literally asking me? you are the arbiter on twitter, because you own twitter. i m saying, who is to say? 0ne person s misinformation is another person s information. the point at which you say, this is misinformation. but you accept misinformation can be dangerous, that it can cause real world harms, that it can potentially cause. the point i make is that the bbc itself has at times published the point i m trying to make is that the bbc itself has at times published things that are false. do you agree that has occurred? i am quite sure the bbc had said things that have turned out not to be true in its 100 year history. even if you aspire to be accurate, there are times
so called smart motorways which use measures such as variable speed limits to improve traffic flows. fourteen stretches of carriageway have already been paused or cancelled because of concerns over costs and safety. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, the interview: elon musk. it s not every day you get invited by one of the world s richest and most influential people to a sit down interview. earlier on tuesday, i d received a response to an e mailfrom mr musk. let s do an interview tonight, it read. just a few short hours later, we were setting up in twitter s headquarters in san francisco. hello, how are you doing? really nice to meet you, too. we are about to go live, very surprisingly, we only just found this out, on twitter, that that is elon musk. we didn t know about that, but you never know with elon musk.
front of me i did not quite believe he was actually going to do it. any side you can ask me anything. it was meant to be an interview that lasted happen and ended up being almost an hour and a half and we went to all sorts of issues with twitter, how many staff had been sacked. towards the end of the interview he was talking about what it s like to go to parties when you are as famous as elon musk and how it is difficult to trust anyone. it was a really wide ranging interview with lots of lines. he said he is going to take that label of the bbc account that said government funded, it is now going to say publicly funded and he is going to do that tomorrow. he also said he was forced to buy twitter because he thought he was going to lose a court case in november, that is ultimately why he bought twitter and he said he was going to potentially sell twitter if the right person came along. so it was a very long interview with all sorts of news lines generated. spoke
centres, we shut down one of them, so we are actually two thirds of the computer capability, but we ve made so many improvements to the core algorithm, in some cases we improved the core algorithm by 80%, so the actual cpu usage, computer usage is dramatically less. so, the results speak for themselves. the system despite being at all time highs of usage is fast, responsive, more responsive than before the takeover. and we have also added longform tweets, we ve added, you can post videos up to two hours, of any length, rolling out subscriber programme so people can, content creators can actually make a living on twitter by having some of their content behind a pay wall. and we open source the algorithm
personally invested in it? it has taken up enough a lot of his time and he has big businesses to run. i do, he was absolutelyjoking around, saying he would make his dog the chief executive of twitter and i kind of pushed again and he wasn t really answering the questions. wasn t really taking some of these questions seriously, but obviously does really love twitter. he still loves twitter and he still wants to make it work. it was clear having interviewed him for another and are happy has taken a real toll on him. emotionally he obviously feels fairly spent, i guess. at the same time he was also joking around. the elon musk you imagine in your mind, thatis elon musk you imagine in your mind, that is pretty similar to the elon musk i experienced today. i that is pretty similar to the elon musk i experienced today. i think we reall will musk i experienced today. i think we really will get musk i experienced today. i think we really will get a musk i experienced today. i think we real