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Elon Musk slams reporter accusing increase of hateful content on Twitter: ‘You just lied!’
Elon Musk slammed a reporter from the BBC who accused him of allowing hateful content to be more available and visible on Twitter. The Tesla and Twitter frontman asked him to bring forth a single example of hateful content that the reporter had seen, and when they were unable to list a specific form of it, Musk said, “You just lied!”
James Clayton of the BBC showed up at Twitter HQ to interview Musk, and the conversation eventually turned to hateful content on the platform.
I said BBC could come Twitter, then, to my surprise, a reporter shows up
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 12, 2023
When Musk asked Clayton whether the content was something “you don’t like or content that is hateful,” he asked for a definition of what is hateful.
“Content that will solicit a reaction, something that may include something that is slightly racist or slightly sexist, those kinds of things,” Clayton said.
Musk responded by asking if because something is “slightly sexist,” it should be banned.
Clayton responded by stating that he isn’t saying anything should be banned or allowed, specifically, but Musk asked for specific examples of either sexist or racist content that he had personally seen on the platform.
“You asked me whether my feed, whether it has got less or more [hateful content], I would say more.” Musk immediately repeated that he wanted a specific example, but Clayton could not bring forth a single specific instance of something that he considered “hateful content,” even though he had said his feed specifically had more.
“Can you name one example?” Musk asked. “I honestly don’t…” Before Musk said, “You can’t name a single example?”
Clayton said, “I’ll tell you why. Because I don’t actually use that ‘For You’ feed anymore because I just don’t particularly like it. A lot of people are quite similar.”
Musk went on to ask how Clayton could say that hateful content has increased on his feed, in his perspective, but that he does not use the ‘For You’ feed anymore. Clayton said that he has stuck to the ‘Followers’ feed for the past 3-4 weeks, and Musk asked, “Then how do you see that hateful content.”
“Because I’ve been using Twitter since you’ve taken it over for the last six months,” Clayton responded.
“Okay, so then you must have at some point seen ‘For You’ hateful content. I’m asking for one example,” Musk said. Clayton was still unable to give one example, and Musk broke down the argument even further by stating that, while he was convinced hateful content had increased based on his own experience, yet was unable to bring up an example, he falsified his point.
“You just lied!” Musk said.
Clayton then said that “there are many organizations” that claim hateful content has increased under Musk’s ownership of Twitter. Under Clayton’s own experience, however, he stated he experienced more hateful content, then couldn’t name an example.
The full encounter is available below.
ICYMI – BBC reporter caught out by Elon Musk on “hate speech.”pic.twitter.com/oC5yOolPAP
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 12, 2023
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Tesla gets its latest short from Michael Burry: ‘Happy it jumped back to this level’
Tesla short seller Michael Burry, the subject of the film “The Big Short,” where he was portrayed by Steve Carell, has revealed he has opened a new bet against the stock.
In a new update to his Substack newsletter in a post titled “Trading Post June 30, 2026,” Burry revealed a new set of bets against Tesla, Caterpillar, NVIDIA, Applied Materials Inc., and the iShares Semiconductor ETF.
In regard to Tesla, Burry wrote:
“And finally I shorted Tesla at 416.22. Happy it jumped back to this level.”
This means Burry likely opened his new short position after the company’s recent rally on Wall Street, which saw Tesla shares sink in mid-May, only to recover to well over the $400 mark. Currently, shares trade at around $427.
The company saw a big Tuesday as shares climbed considerably, over 10 percent. The size of the Tesla short was not provided, nor did Burry give any information on the position’s structure, the number of shares, dollar value, or whether options were used in the short.
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Over the years, Burry has been one of the more vocal critics of Tesla, calling its share price “media inflated,” and saying it was “ridiculously overvalued” as recently as December.
The company has largely transitioned away from being known as an automotive company and instead is much more widely regarded as an AI play, mostly due to its Full Self-Driving efforts, Optimus robot development, and data collection related to both.
This has not pulled those skeptics away from being vocal about their distaste for how Tesla is valued, but there’s no denying that the company is a global force in many things, including sustainable energy, automotive, and AI.
Wedbush Securities is initiating stock coverage on SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX), marking the first comments on the company since it went public several weeks ago. Wedbush and its analyst handling coverage, Dan Ives, are widely bullish on fellow Musk company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA).
Ives wrote his first note initiating coverage of SpaceX shares on Wednesday with a $190 price target and an ‘Outperform’ rating. The firm believes the company is well positioned off of its IPO because of its wide array of projects, including AI compute power and infrastructure, connectivity projects, and launches.
“We view SpaceX as one of the most differentiated assets within the tech market with a strong footprint across its three core markets, with Starlink driving success with connectivity,” Ives wrote, “Starship launches leading to a demand flywheel and increasing deal flow for its Colossus clusters.”
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Wedbush leans heavily on Starlink, which they say is the “profitability driver given the strength of its recurring revenue base of ~12 million subscribers as of June 5th.” Ives believes Starlink is still in the “early innings” of penetrating the global telecommunications and broadband market, as it only holds less than a 1 percent share. However, this number is sure to increase over time.
It also highlights the importance of Starship, which it says is an “essential layer” of SpaceX’s overall success. SpaceX developing and displaying the ability to reuse rockets is a major cost and reliability advantage “as it reduces the necessary hardware launch costs while generating a feedback loop for future flights to improve their launch flight rate without accelerating capex spend.”
Finally, SpaceX’s recent AI/Compute projects are also very elementary, Ives writes. It is worth mentioning Wedbush said its $190 price target is derived from a valuation forecast that sees the company yielding roughly $2.48 trillion of implied enterprise value.
There are also some factors that Wedbush did not take into account with its initial coverage. The firm wrote in the note:
“We note that there is optional value coming from Starship’s accelerating scale towards sub-$200/kg unit economics, orbital data centers, and enterprise AI monetization as these factors could drive meaningful upside but these face major hurdles, so we do not take that into account with our valuation.”
SpaceX shares are down just over 2 percent today, trading at around $167 at the time of publication.
Tesla has expanded the footprint of a massive safety feature worldwide with a recent Software Update labeled as 2026.20.6. The expansion of the “Blind Spot Warning While Parked” feature represents the more widespread availability of the feature, which aims to prevent “dooring.”
Dooring is when a driver or passenger opens a car door into the path of an oncoming road user, usually a cyclist or motorcyclist. It is among the most common types of cycling accidents, the League of American Bicyclists says.
For this reason, Tesla created a feature that warns occupants not to open the door because an object is approaching. The feature will sound a chime, and it will also delay the opening of the door to prevent an incident.
The release notes state (via Not a Tesla App):
“If you attempt to open a door while an approaching object is detected in your blind spot (for example, a bicyclist approaching from behind) a chime sounds, and your door will not open upon initial button press. Wait a short time and press the button a second time to override the warning.”
Tesla initially rolled out this feature back in 2024 with the Model 3 “Highland.” However, it remained with the Model 3 exclusively for over a year; that was until Tesla added it to the Cybertruck this past Spring.
Now, it is making its way to the new Model Y, 2021 and newer Model S, and 2021 or newer Model X.
The prevention of dooring incidents could eliminate many injuries to cyclists, especially in an urban setting. Dooring accounts for 10-20 percent of bike-related crashes in major cities, and over 17,000 dooring-related incidents were treated in the U.S. over the course of a decade. These usually involve fractures, contusions, and head trauma.
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