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Musk says owning Twitter ‘has not been some sort of a party’

After Elon Musk-owned Twitter changed the label of some news organisations to 'government-funded media', NPR became the first major media firm to quit the platform [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters]

Billionaire 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.

In an interview also streamed live late on Tuesday on Twitter Spaces, Musk discussed his ownership of the online platform, including layoffs, misinformation and his work style.

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