leading to this viral moment when he showed up to this viral moment when he showed up at the twitter hqed became clear in this now infamous tweet from a former employee that the new corporate ethos was what he referred to as hardcore. he asked his employees to devote many waking hours and may be sleeping hours to his company and that led to more controversy and some filings as twitter began to downsize massively. and end the interview with elon musk we have heard he has actually fired 80% of total staff going from 8000 to about 1500. a mass of downsizing there. all of this controversy prompting elon musk calling into question his leadership so he issued a poll on his own social media site but he asked the public whether he should step down as head of twitter city would abide by the result but however shortly after that when the public said he should step down he announced his dog would be the new ceo. fast follower that has been other controversy including the tobacco over the blue tick which has become a point of contention. previously users could be verified if they a legacy on news j

leading to this viral moment when mr mosca showed up at the twitter hq in san francisco bringing in the that it became clear, as you can see, in this now infamous tweet from a former employee at twitter that his new corporate ethos was what he referred to as hard—core. he asked his employees to really devote many waking hours and in fact some sleeping hours to his company. in that lee did —— led to more controversy and some firings as twitter began to downsize massively. in fact injames twitter began to downsize massively. in fact in james clayton's twitter began to downsize massively. in fact injames clayton's interview with elon musk, we have heard that, elon musk is actually fired 80% of twitter staff going from 8000 to about 1500 psi. within the past six months. as a postscript on the story ijust months. as a postscript on the story i just want to show you the tag to the bbc which has been changed. your member that story earlier in the week where twitter had attacked the bbc government funded media, bbc immediately objected and said that it is publicly funded by the licensee and jam

a few hours later, james was sitting down with musk at twitter hq, to ask him about freedom of speechormation and any regrets about controversial decisions he's made in his six months at twitter. there is a lot going on so this might be a good opportunity to answer some questions and you know, i guess, answer some questions and you know, iguess, maybe answer some questions and you know, i guess, maybe get some feedback, too. what should we be doing different. i know the bbc for example is not thrilled for example a being labelled state affiliated media. it’s state affiliated media. it's officially objected to that term, do you want to respond to it? ~ term, do you want to respond to it? . ., , term, do you want to respond to it? ~ ., , ., , term, do you want to respond to it? ., , it? we are trying to be as truthful — it? we are trying to be as truthful and _ it? we are trying to be as truthful and accurate - it? we are trying to be as truthful and accurate as l truthful and accurate as possible, so i think we are adjusting the label to be publicly funded, which i think is perhaps not

james clayton, sat down with him for a 90—minute interview, and jamesjoins us now from outside twitter hqdn't have much time to prepare for your face—to—face? no, not at all. this time yesterday i had no idea i was going to interview elon musk. i interviewed him at lunchtime, and he got back to say, go on, let's do an interview tonight. so a few hours later i was in this building and we had a very long interview, and it was kind of bizarre at times. but also pretty enlightening. here are some of the highlights. it's not every day you find yourself invited by one of the world's richest and most influential people to a sit down interview and a few minutes before it was due to take place, the inevitable cu rveball. we're about to go live. very surprisingly, we onlyjust found this out on on twitter. but that is elon musk. we didn't know about that. but you never know with elon musk. when he sat down, he was in the mood to chat. so how do you think it's gone? to chat. so how do you think it's one? ~ to chat. so how do you think it's cone? ~ �*. to chat. so how do you think it's one? ~ �* , .,

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last night he summoned the bbc�*s north american technology correspondent, james clayton, to twitter hqtunity to answer some questions and i guess, get some feedback too. which under the bbc is none too thrilled about being labelled state led media. i was going to mention that later but they have objected to that and do you want to respond to it? to be as accurate as possible, and i think we are adjusting that label to be publicly funded which is perhaps not too objectionable, we're trained to be accurate. too objectionable, we're trained to be accurate-— be accurate. publicly funded is of the bbc describes _ be accurate. publicly funded is of the bbc describes itself. - be accurate. publicly funded is of the bbc describes itself. you i be accurate. publicly funded is of the bbc describes itself. you will make use the same words, then presumably, that would be ok, i'm not asking you for a yes or no. because you are not running the bbc, per se. because you are not running the bbc, perse. it because you are not running the bbc, per se. it seems to pass a reasonable. so per se. it seems to

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hq says. we're legally required to keep sign as twitter and cannot remove w so we painted it. background color. problem solved. all right. can we just talk for a moment much f some sunshine? just pretty day today, right? just glorious. and i was mentioning to somebody earlier that i actually forgot the sound of birds singing. i mean, when it was raining, we never heard the birds right this morning. i saw them to write. and this morning i was out walking my dog and i heard them singing and it was like i started singing. well it's short lived, though, because we do have clouds returning to the bay area and the wind. as well. check this out. keep in mind the towers of the golden gate bridge stands 749 ft. tall and you cannot see the top of it, so the ceiling is roughly down to about two and 300 ft. actually at this hour due to that fog bank about an hour ago, we were down to three quarters of a mile visibility and happening bay that is now improved. no problems anywhere else. but let's take a look at the fog merging with a week cold front that's going to begin to descend on the b

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