Billionaire Elon Musk tells the BBC that running Twitter has been 'quite painful' but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year.
abc.net.au/news/elon-musk-says-owning-twitter-painful-but-needed-to-be-done/102216126Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been "quite painful" but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year.
"It's not been boring. It's quite a rollercoaster," he told the British broadcaster at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters. After buying Twitter for $US44 billion last year, Mr Musk's changes included eliminating the company's communications department.The interview was sometimes tense, with Mr Musk challenging the reporter to back up assertions about rising levels of hate speech on the platform.
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