the bbc has been speaking to twitter s owner, elon musk. the last minute, unexpected interview came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. in the interview the billionaire agreed to change this to publicy funded. he also defended the site s policing of hate speech and the mass sackings of staff and described taking over the social media firm as painful. do you have any regrets about buying twitter? i think it was something that needed to be done. it s been quite difficult. i would say, the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this hasn t been some sort of party, so, it s been really quite a stressful situation in the last several months, not an easy one. so it s been quite painful, but i think at the end of the day, it should have been done and were there are many mistakes made along the way, of course? live now to san francisco and our technology correspondent james clayton. this was a sur
Be a good opportunity to answer some questions. and, you know, i guess maybe get some feedback. what should we be doing different? i know the bbc were not thrilled about being labelled state affiliated media. hot labelled state affiliated media. not exactl , i labelled state affiliated media. not exactly, i was going to get to that later but let s get that now, it has officially objected to that.- officially ob ected to that. yeah, we want to officially objected to that. yeah, we want to be officially objected to that. yeah, we want to be a officially objected to that. yeah, we want to be a stressful- officially objected to that. yeah, we want to be a stressful and i we want to be a stressful and accurate as possible, so i think we are adjusting the label to be publicly funded, which i think perhaps it is not too objectionable. we are trying to be accurate. i am not the bbc. we are trying to be accurate. i am not the bbc, but. we are trying to be accurate. i am not the bbc, b