'We have to get rid of the bots and trolls,' Musk says of Twitter as he arrives at Met Gala

Record ID: 1671015

  • Title: 'We have to get rid of the bots and trolls,' Musk says of Twitter as he arrives at Met Gala
  • Date: 3rd May 2022
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MAY 2, 2022) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** TESLA CEO ELON MUSK WALKING AND WAVING AS HE ARRIVES FOR MET GALA VARIOUS OF MUSK STANDING NEXT TO HIS MOTHER, MODEL MAYE MUSK (SOUNDBITE) (English) TESLA CEO, ELON MUSK, SAYING: "Why would you want to talk to me?" (REPORTER TELLING MUSK HE IS TRYING TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE). Aspirationally. Yes. Okay. And hopefully not, you know, they say the road is road to hell is paved with good intentions, but I think it's mostly paved with bad intentions. Every idea, there's good intention in there. And hopefully my good intention is to not pave the road to hell. (REPORTER ASKING IF NEGATIVITY BOTHERS HIM). Well, it does get to me sometimes. I mean, I'm not like, you know, I do have feelings." ELON AND MAYE MUSK POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS (SOUNDBITE) (English) TESLA CEO, ELON MUSK, SAYING: "Well, I mean, the the goal that I have should that, you know, everything come to fruition with Twitter, is to have a service that is broadly as inclusive as possible, where ideally most of America is on it and talking, you know, and having, facilitating just discussion between people and, you know, sharing ideas and content and creative things, whether they're written or video or podcasts. And, you know, just really like, do you do you enjoy going on Twitter and not just this sort of a small percentage of people, but a lot of people, do you find it sort of, you know, interesting, informative, entertaining and you know, and then, of course, I've also vowed this publicly that we have to get rid of the bots and trolls and the scams and everything because that's obviously diminishing the user experience. And we know don't want people are getting tricked out of their money and that kind of thing. So I we're definitely on the warpath so I if somebody is operating a bot and troll army then I'm definitely their enemy. Just to be clear." (REPORTER ASKING WHO HIS DATE IS) This is my mother Maye. (MAYE MUSK SAYING: I asked him to come and bring me." VARIOUS OF ELON AND MAYE MUSK POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
  • Embargoed: 17th May 2022 01:32
  • Keywords: Elon Musk Met Gala Twitter
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Company News Markets,Economic Events,United States
  • Reuters ID: LVA001535202052022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk, who has inked a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, said on the red carpet at the Met Gala on Monday (May 2) that he would rid the platform of "bots and trolls."
    "We have to get rid of the bots and trolls and the scams and everything because that's obviously diminishing the user experience. And we know don't want people are getting tricked out of their money and that kind of thing. So I we're definitely on the warpath so I if somebody is operating a bot and troll army then I'm definitely their enemy," he said.
    Musk attended the glittering event with his mother, model Maye Musk.
    Known for celebrities in over-the-top outfits, the so-called Oscars of the East Coast returned on its traditional date of the first Monday in May, just eight months after 2021's pandemic-delayed event in September.
    This year's A-list guests were told to dress in "gilded glamour" for the annual fundraiser for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
    The invitation-only Met Gala marks the opening of the annual fashion exhibition at the museum's Costume Institute. This year’s exhibit, "In America: An Anthology of Fashion," caps a two-part exhibition and focuses on the history of American dress.
    (Production: Andrew Hofstetter, Andrew Piccardo, Dan Fastenberg, Alicia Powell, Jane Ross)
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