Elon Musk has said UK MPs “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens” in a fresh escalation of tensions between the world’s richest man and Labour.

Musk, who has been a fixture at the side of Donald Trump since his re-election as US president, was responding to a Guardian report on Wednesday that the Commons’ science and technology select committee would call him to give evidence in the new year in its inquiry into the spread of harmful content on social media after the August riots.

The committee’s chair, Chi Onwurah, a Labour MP, said she wanted to see how Musk, who owns the X social media platform, “reconciles his promotion of freedom of expression with his promotion of pure disinformation”.

MBFC
Archive

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    163
    ·
    2 days ago

    The probable response I’m expecting from British MPs (and government): “Shut the fuck up.”

    Musk is such an insufferably man-child. The UK government should just restrict or ban Twitter. It’s a shithole network that is hemorrhaging users. Blue Sky or Mastodon can pick up any of the surplus demand. And nothing of value would be lost if Twitter dies.

    • DrCake@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      111
      ·
      2 days ago

      Just get all government accounts off Twitter. A lot of people still use Twitter because of these “important” accounts, the less of them, the more people are happy to move elsewhere.

    • disgrunty@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 days ago

      Farage and his Reform party exists. So that’s at least one MP that I could see saying yes.

      • RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 day ago

        I’m surprised anyone still listens to him. His whole thing with Brexit was taking the money sent to the EU to fund the NHS. It was obviously lies, but many Brexit supporters made this argument.

        • disgrunty@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 day ago

          God, I forgot about that. I used to work in an office full of Farage fans and that was one of the most common threads back in 2016. There was a large amount of open racism, too. It was an experience.

      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        2 days ago

        I’m pretty sure even Farage doesn’t want to fly to America to get his ass kicked. He might to suck some billionaire cock, though.