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Elon Musk Once Again Uses Twitter to Make a Childish Joke

Elon Musk has never been shy about anything, least of all his "I can do anything I want" stance on the day-to-day running of Twitter (TWTR). Between setting the social media site's press email to automatically respond with a poop emoji and removing the "w" from Twitter headquarters' building sign, Musk's antics have drawn him a good deal of attention since he purchased the platform.

The billionaire CEO has once again illustrated that he's willing to make Twitter his own personal playground by making a slight adjustment to a business' Twitter profile --as a joke, of course.

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"Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they’re 'less than 70% government-funded'," he tweeted on the morning of April 17. "So we corrected the label." The page's label now says that it's "69% government funded."

It's a move that could have been accomplished by a 13-year-old, but Musk is hardly concerned about impressing those who rely on the social media network for professional purposes.

Nowhere is Musk's unusual sense of humor more apparent than in his dealing with press outlets. A recent interview with the BBC live-streamed on Twitter Spaces made headlines one week prior after an exceptionally argumentative Musk turned the interview into an all-but-shouting match. Barely more than a week later, Musk had the NPR Twitter account labeled as "state-affiliated media," -- the same as Russia's state-affiliated media platform RT.

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