Musk addressed his tweeting habits on the podcast, debating with Rogan whether his direct engagement and battles with people on the platform was a “good idea.”
“I think it’s on balance more good than bad but there’s definitely some bad so hopefully the good outweighs the bad,” he said.
Speaking about how he deals with negative comments directed at him on the social network, the businessman said he mostly ignores them.
He said: “The vast number of negative comments, the vast majority of them I just ignore them. Every now and again I get drawn in, it’s not good. I make some mistakes.”
Musk, who founded X.com, a precursor to PayPal, recently got into hot water when he accused a British man involved in the mission to rescue a Thai boys’ soccer team trapped in a cave of being a pedophile.
The executive called Vernon Unsworth a “pedo guy” on Twitter after the cave diver called his idea to save the trapped boys with a miniature submarine a “PR stunt.” Musk subsequently apologized, but has sunk further into the controversy, having made two more attacks on the cave explorer.
He most recently called Unsworth a “child rapist.” The Briton is preparing a civil complaint for libel against Musk, his attorney said.
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