Musk has spent days beefing with politicians over the far-right unrest sweeping the UK.

*Musk has spent days beefing with politicians over the far-right unrest sweeping the UK. *

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."

  • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    4 months ago

    Love how this guy’s one of the richest people in the world yet he’s got nothin better to do than fuck with the common folk. Guess he doesn’t get enough attention at home, so here we are watching him stoke racism and stupidity to entertain his pathetic insecure self

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      Love how this guy’s one of the richest people in the world yet he’s got nothin better to do than fuck with the common folk.

      to entertain his pathetic insecure self

      To those who have finished watching the first season of Squid Game, this observation is prescient.

      Capitalism replaced feudalism; and the new aristocrats are the billionaires.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      It’s actually so much simpler than that. He’s tweaked the Twitter algorithm to serve more right wing brain rot for engagement and, being a habitual user, rotted his own fucking brain more and more. He’s indirectly self radicalizing. He’s getting high on his own supply.

      At least zuck doesn’t actually use that shithole called Facebook.