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”.
Wdym “amplifying?” It’s already amplified - Elon is acting in an official-unofficial way with the incoming Trump admin. It’s what happened. The Guardian is literally just reporting it and not advocating for a side or a position. Like it or not what Elon wants and says now matters. Even if we ignore him, the government will still act on what he says.