of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reasons. first of all, collaboration. i never would have met some of the people i ve worked with had it not been for twitter. second, it s a world of sources at our fingertips, so that we re able to contact those that we really wouldn t be able to actually reach. and third, it s a way for us to actually speak to people on the ground and it s one of those crucial platforms for that, which, as we ve seen with this investigation, we wouldn t have had access to many of those people had it not been for some platforms like twitter. 0k, and we will come back to more of that, i m sure, later. but let s go for the big story this week. elon musk announced himself as chief twit last week when
the management of the platform. the letter follows the billionaire s sacking of half the staff, including the entire human rights team. those are our top stories this hour. now on bbc news, the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello. today, we re asking whether it matters that the world s richest man now owns twitter. elon musk is the latest american billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? and we ll also hear from journalists with the bbc s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest, as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? look, for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reason
american billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? we will also hear from journalists with the bbc s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. out of interest, as we are talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? for many of us twitter is a lifeline. not only is it a way to share findings but there are a couple of reasons, first of all, collaboration. i never would have met some of the people i have worked with had it not been for twitter. second, it is a world of sources at our fingertips so we are able to contact those that we would not be able to actually reach. and third, it s a way for us to actually speak to people on the ground and it is one of those crucial platforms for that which, as we have seen with this investigation, we w
donetsk region of ukraine who sentenced two british volunteer fighters to death is reportedly shot and badly injured in what appears to have been an assassination attempt. now on bbc news. the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello. today we re asking whether it matters that the world s richest man now owns twitter. elon musk is the latest american billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. should we care? and we ll also hear from journalists with the bbc s africa eye investigations team about how open source journalism allowed them to uncover the truth behind tragedy on the moroccan spanish border. ben strick is one of the investigative journalists behind the story. ben, out of interest as we re talking about twitter, how important is it as a tool for your reporting? for many of us, twitter is really a lifeline. you know, not only is it a way to share findings, but i think there s there s a couple of reasons. first of a
0k. and peter, what s your sense of all this? and indeed, you know how it s going to change the way the platform is used, whether it is. i think the most consistent through line from both elon musk and the people who are advising him privately and publicly is that they believe twitter has been wrecked by its now former management because they believe that former management was trying to prevent a certain group of people from expressing their opinions on twitter. they thought that was wrong. it turns out that most people who are advising many people who were advising elon musk are on the sort of conservative side of the spectrum, but they believe in sort of almost an old school, early internet early internet view of the web being let 1000 voices speak and we ll sort it out and more speech is better than less speech . and i think that if you if you gave elon musk a lie detector, that is what he truly does believe, but i don t think he s thought through any of this. well, we re goi