its always good to see liars confronted and elon does a bang up job here;

Twitter owner Elon Musk has accused a BBC reporter of lying during an interview in a row over whether incidents of hate speech are increasing on the social network.

Mr Musk was asked by US tech journalist James Clayton how he would respond to claims that there are not enough staff at Twitter to police rising hateful content.

But he challenged the reporter to give him examples of such content - and when Mr Clayton declined to do so, Mr Musk accused him of spreading a 'false' claim.

During a wide-ranging discussion at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco, Mr Musk also said that Twitter had 'four months to live' when he bought the firm. He insisted it needed to cut costs to save it from bankruptcy and confirmed that about 80 per cent of its staff have been axed since he took over last October.

And, explaining the last-minute nature of the interview - for which Mr Clayton is said to have had only 20 minutes to prepare - Mr Musk later tweeted: 'I said BBC could come Twitter, then, to my surprise, a reporter shows up.' Mr Musk also described the interview as 'penetrating deep and hard'.......more.....