Director general says BBC needs to reach young audiences online amid pressure to leave Elon Musk-owned site
The BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, has said he will not be taking the broadcaster off Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, saying that its presence is needed to resist a flood of global misinformation.
Davie said he had come under pressure to withdraw from the platform, given numerous complaints that it has shifted significantly to the right under Musk’s ownership.
The site is also facing a backlash over a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed, generated by X’s Grok AI tool.
Appearing before MPs to discuss the BBC’s efforts to counter misinformation, Davie said he had rejected calls to no longer use X. He said the BBC had to reach vulnerable young audiences around the world and said the likes of China and Iran were “flooding the zone”.
