Musk has spent days beefing with politicians over the far-right unrest sweeping the UK.

Elon Musk could be summoned for a grilling by British MPs over X’s role in race riots that have rocked the U.K. over the last week, as well as his own incendiary comments about the violence.

Labour MPs Chi Onwurah and Dawn Butler, who are competing to chair parliament’s science, innovation and technology committee, both told POLITICO they’d press the billionaire X owner and other technology executives to answer questions about the role of social media platforms amid mounting unrest in the U.K.

Musk has spent days beefing with British politicians over the riots, and is locked in a war of words with Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the U.K’s handling of them. Musk on Sunday wrote “civil war is inevitable” in the U.K. and claimed that the response by U.K. police has been “one-sided."

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Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter) saw misinformation about the identity of the attacker — wrongly identified as an asylum seeker who had just arrived in the U.K. — spread widely in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The X boss has also come under fire for re-instating the account of high-profile far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who co-founded the English Defense League.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    There’s still a censorship element though. The thing is, a large percentage of the British population are tired of the idiotic immigration policies. All the government has done in the past 10 years is make it more difficult for hardworking productive people to move in yet allowing mass illegal immigrants coming from safe countries to come here, barely checked.

    Now, don’t you dare think I am trying to justify the violence at all. I completely and utterly condemn it. Protest directed towards the government is sensible, violence towards people who were just allowed into the country by said government isn’t. Even though it’s thuggery, there’s still reason fueling it. It’s worth remembering that the Reform party came third in vote share.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Mate, i’m from possibly one of the most casually racist shithead countries in the western world and i still think that’s a pretty spurious argument.

      Your issue isn’t immigration, it’s listening to racist shitstirrers. It fuelled the stupidity of brexit and it’s fuelling the shit going on right now. You have a scared and unhappy population due to end stage capitalism, murdoch media and years of insane right wing governance causing widespread SLS and now you’re full of raging butthurt thats’s letting you be led like a bull via a nose ring to that same fetid well of Blame The Other it always fucking goes to.