tucker: state media outlets like national public radio and the british broadcasting corporation are very upset that elon musk has taken over twitter. an open twitter is a massive threat them monday know that. they can t survive. a reporter from the bbc just sat down with elon musk and tried to attack him for extremism and hate speech in interview last night. what happened next is something you have to see. trace gallagher brings that to us now. this is the bbc s technology reporter james clayton who during his interview with elon musk failed to implement a couple of journalism one journalism one-on-one rules like never state a fact you can t back up and do your homework. had the clayton done his homework he would have learned back in december elton john quit twitter because the singer claimed the platform was allowing unchecked misinformation to which elon musk responded i love your music, hope you come back, is there any misinformation in particular you re concerned
you mentioned russia today. i think that is a model. i didn t mean to you but you picked me up on it. laughter. i have to say i had many conversations in private with colleagues or people who work in chinese state media. they do raise, with envy, the example of russia today. they always say, we really wish. look at them, they spend a fraction of the money we do. somehow they can reach so much wider an audience. so i want to understand thatjealousy. joshua, if i can bring you in, why do you think that these chinese people who howard s speaking to are jealous of what the russians are achieving with russia today or with rt as it s been rebranded? sure, i actually have to disagree a little bit. i do think they re learning from russia and disinformation but i think china could n ever have a channel as effective as russia today or aljazeera which are the obvious viles of authoritarian state media outlets, other than xinhua which i leave aside, that have been affective. russia today at it
. state media outlets like national public radio and the british broadcasting corporation, npr and and bbc ar very upset that elon musk has taken over twitter. an open twitter is a massive threat to them and they know that, of course, they can t can survive if are real options. so a reporter from the bbck just sat down with elon musk had tried to attack him for extremism and hate speech. in an interview last night,ht what happened next is really something you have to see. foxes trace gallagheser brings t to us now. hey , trace. thi hey, tucker. this is the bbc s technol reporter, james clayton, who during his interview with elon musk, failed to implement interviiled t a cof journalism 101 rules like never. haate of fact, you can tstate at back up and do your homework. had claytoton n done his homewoh he would have learned that back in december, elton john quit twitter because john quththe singer claimed thm was allowing uncheckedallowi misinformation to which elonng c musk resp
canada and many places in south east asia where there are a lot of chinese language listeners and changing the content to almost exclusively pro beijing, and firing basically all the independent reporters and coverage. so that s been very successful. i think that cgtn and china radio international, two state media outlets, have not been successful. there is an extensive range of gallup polling showing they have minimal audience share. to explain, before you go on, cgtn is the primary tv network that the chinese run. and that doesn t even include places like the united states and britain and australia, which have actually banned or put extensive limitations on those outlets.