Since the start of this year, Elon Musk has repeatedly posted about UK politics and grooming gangs at a significant rate. BBC Verify has examined a 24-hour snapshot of his X timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... - ThreadSky

shayan86.bsky.social • 47 days ago

Since the start of this year, Elon Musk has repeatedly posted about UK politics and grooming gangs at a significant rate.

BBC Verify has examined a 24-hour snapshot of his X timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c87dg3x1rd0o

Comments

susiecc.bsky.social•47 days ago

Shock shock

destroyewski.bsky.social•46 days ago

All that, while paying parallel e-athletes to make it look like he's a good PoE2 player. The insatiable, desperate cry for affection… 🤡

pebi.org•47 days ago

It's getting to a point where Musk would not be able to enter the UK or the EU without risking an arrest order for trying to overthrow governments. He is not a spotty fat script kiddie having fun in his parents' basement, and I wouldn't be surprised if this madness leads to a rapid fall in position.

muttley76.bsky.social•46 days ago

This is a good report but unless the BBC take lessons from this and stop posting what he says without fact checking it at the same time it’s really not super helpful. So many news alerts from the BBC have spread this misinformation unchallenged.

garethbuk.bsky.social•45 days ago

Time to ban X simple as that, start with huge fines. Same with Meta if it goes the same way.

starburst42.bsky.social•47 days ago

Glad to see the BBC is still checking facts.

theotherirving.bsky.social•47 days ago

Does someone makes these videos into tik-toks reels etc. and posts this information in socials, so actual people may see it?
I’m not joking, as mass disinformation on social media should be fought by MASS information on same kind of media, not by a single video on a website, or a single post here?

bwreed.bsky.social•47 days ago

Question: Why is something that happened 17 years ago and had nothing to do with Keir Starmer somehow consuming his government now?

spw-dev.pro•47 days ago

Oldham council asked for a national inquiry a few months ago which was turned down (as it was last time they asked). National inquiries take years to carry out, and other councils have conducted their own similar inquiries and have seen much faster, positive results.

spw-dev.pro•47 days ago

Jess Philips pushed back and told the council it was their responsibility to conduct an enquiry based on the fact that others have done the same. This was taken by Musk etc to mean that she doesn’t care about the issue and it snowballed from there.