Elon Musk's social media platform refused to hand over details of hundreds of accounts to authorities in the wake of last summer's far-Right riots. At the time, the billionaire accused the Government of 'censorship' for imprisoning Britons over their online posts.
I knew I admired the man already, Starmer, no need to give him an opportunity to consolidate that...
Musk previously goaded Sir Keir Starmer online by accusing the PM of presiding over 'one-sided' policing of protests breaking out across the UK - even using the hashtag 'TwoTierKeir' in a tweet to 196million people.
As did pretty much the entirety of Twitter.
Cabinet ministers blamed social media for allowing hate and fake news to be spread, leading to violent riots by the far-Right which saw migrant hotels and mosques attacked in the wake of the Southport stabbings. False claims spread rapidly on X and other social media platforms that the suspect was a Muslim asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat a year previously. The person responsible was Axel Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, who pleaded guilty in January to 16 offences, including three counts of murder.
The way this article is written makes it seem that all the predictions were wrong, doesn't it? But were they? Not so very much, his parents appear to have been granted some sort of shadowy 'asylum' here following a massacre in Rwanda, and there's a lot of obfuscation around statements he's supposed to have made at the time of his capture about his faith.
So who do I trust more, should this happen again? It's not going to be the government of liars we've got in Westminster, that's for sure.
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They can still call normal people 'Far Right' with a straight face
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