CNBC has announced that Elon Musk will join the network for an interview at 6:00 PM ET this evening. However, he says it’s more of an interview with David Faber than an interview with the network.
The announced interview raised eyebrows. Musk has had an often contentious relationship with the cable finance channel. The network has been critical of his takeover and subsequent gutting of Twitter, and Musk mocked the network after it interviewed people outside Twitter’s headquarters after a mass layoff. However, the people interviewed had not actually been employed by Twitter.
In a tweet, Musk argued that he was conducting the interview on the advice of Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel.
“I’m not doing an interview with CNBC, the organization, I’m doing an interview with David Faber at Ari Emanuel’s recommendation,” wrote Musk. “If David was at another news org, I would still do it.”
Musk’s tweet was in response to a user calling the interview a “shocker” that he would interview with a “media outlet that bashed him since the early days and never gave him and Tesla the light of day”.
The interview with Musk comes days after he named Linda Yaccarino, an advertising executive at NBCUniversal, as Twitter’s new CEO. Musk has alluded to changes on the horizon for the app, claiming he looks forward to working with the new CEO to “transform this platform into X, the everything app.”
