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FT has some analysis on this - nothing we dont know but a bit more detail
How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics
An analysis of the entrepreneur’s feed by the Financial Times found that Musk — whose attacks on the British prime minister and senior politicians have become more scathing over the past week — has amplified or responded to a handful of X accounts that have posted extensively about the handling of historic sex crimes in the country.
They include Viségrad 24 — an account with more than 1.2mn followers run by British-born South African-Pole Stefan Tompson — social media personality Mario Nawfal, and Malaysian influencer Ian Miles Cheong, alongside several less popular right-leaning accounts purportedly based in the UK.
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“There is a pretty right-wing libertarian UK émigré network in the US who are feeding a lot of this,” said one British government official, adding that they were free speech advocates linked to right-wing US think tanks that are projecting an image of the UK as “uber woke”.
The officials said they include Douglas Murray, a neoconservative author who has written books on western decline and “Islamophilia,” who Musk has referred to in tweets on the grooming scandal, and Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the DC-based Heritage Foundation.
A second UK official said that the growth of Islam in the UK was another key theme pushed by influential US-based British commentators, highlighting that UK media stories last month about “Muhammad” becoming the most popular boy’s name in England and Wales were shared widely among Maga figures on X and other social media sites.
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X allows users to switch between a feed of the accounts they follow only, and an algorithmic feed, dubbed “For You”, showing content that might match their interests and previous activity. The more Musk engages with content about the UK from the far right or niche sources, the more he will be served similar content in his “For You” page, according to experts.
“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product,” said Bruce Daisley, former head of Twitter’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK premier before next election
Elon Musk has privately discussed with allies how Sir Keir Starmer could be removed as UK prime minister before the next general election, according to people briefed on the matter.
Musk, the world’s richest man and key confidant of US president-elect Donald Trump, is probing how he and his right-wing allies can destabilise the UK Labour government beyond the aggressive posts he has issued on his social media platform X, the people said.
“His view is that western civilisation itself is threatened,” one of the people added.
How a handful of X accounts took Elon Musk ‘down the rabbit hole’ on UK politics
An analysis of the entrepreneur’s feed by the Financial Times found that Musk — whose attacks on the British prime minister and senior politicians have become more scathing over the past week — has amplified or responded to a handful of X accounts that have posted extensively about the handling of historic sex crimes in the country.
They include Viségrad 24 — an account with more than 1.2mn followers run by British-born South African-Pole Stefan Tompson — social media personality Mario Nawfal, and Malaysian influencer Ian Miles Cheong, alongside several less popular right-leaning accounts purportedly based in the UK.
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“There is a pretty right-wing libertarian UK émigré network in the US who are feeding a lot of this,” said one British government official, adding that they were free speech advocates linked to right-wing US think tanks that are projecting an image of the UK as “uber woke”.
The officials said they include Douglas Murray, a neoconservative author who has written books on western decline and “Islamophilia,” who Musk has referred to in tweets on the grooming scandal, and Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the DC-based Heritage Foundation.
A second UK official said that the growth of Islam in the UK was another key theme pushed by influential US-based British commentators, highlighting that UK media stories last month about “Muhammad” becoming the most popular boy’s name in England and Wales were shared widely among Maga figures on X and other social media sites.
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X allows users to switch between a feed of the accounts they follow only, and an algorithmic feed, dubbed “For You”, showing content that might match their interests and previous activity. The more Musk engages with content about the UK from the far right or niche sources, the more he will be served similar content in his “For You” page, according to experts.
“Musk has seemingly become the first tech leader to fall down the rabbit hole of radicalisation by his own product,” said Bruce Daisley, former head of Twitter’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
etcetcetc
and
Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK premier before next election
Elon Musk has privately discussed with allies how Sir Keir Starmer could be removed as UK prime minister before the next general election, according to people briefed on the matter.
Musk, the world’s richest man and key confidant of US president-elect Donald Trump, is probing how he and his right-wing allies can destabilise the UK Labour government beyond the aggressive posts he has issued on his social media platform X, the people said.
“His view is that western civilisation itself is threatened,” one of the people added.
