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.
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English22•1 month ago
Good! Because he is absolutely complicit in the rise of hatred
- magnetichuman ( @magnetichuman@fedia.io ) 16•1 month ago
I find it ridiculous that MPs, gov agencies, etc still have active twitter accounts at this point.
- blindbunny ( @blindbunny@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 month ago
If anyone has a Twitter account I deeply judge their morality.
- Flax ( @Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) English7•1 month ago
I’m pretty sure the UK has quite a strong extradition power over the USA. Like all it takes is a British judge to summon someone in the USA for them to be extradited, few questions asked. The USA does have the same power mutually over the UK.
- Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 1•1 month ago
You serious? You actually think the US would deport musk against his will. No the only way Musk is coming over to the UK to face questioning is if he chooses to come over of his own accord. Which he probably will do because he’ll think it’s an opportunity to grandstand.
- Destide ( @sirico@feddit.uk ) English6•1 month ago
Farage, sitting mere meters away when they return
- nickb333 ( @nickb333@fedia.io ) 5•1 month ago
Is Blackberry Messenger still a thing?
- Baggins ( @baggins@beehaw.org ) English4•1 month ago
I’d prefer a good old keel hauling.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 month ago
just stop being cowards and ban twitter access in the uk. period.
but it will never happen because mps are addicted to twitter and refuse to delete their accounts and move to other platforms.