Elon Musk Launches Disinformation Campaign Against UK Government

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Elon Musk Launches Disinformation Campaign Against UK Government
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Elon Musk, a billionaire and associate of former President Trump, is engaging in a disinformation campaign targeting the UK government. He criticizes their immigration policies and spreads misinformation on his platform X, aiming to influence European politics like he did during the US presidential election.

Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk 's latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant.

Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration’s economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatization of services, signifies a “new era” in American politics, says our guest Quinn Slobodian, who is chronicling right-wing tech billionaires’ accelerating attempts to mold the world according to their “destructive” and “nihilist” beliefs. In a far-reaching conversation, Slobodian touches on Musk’s clear admiration of authoritarian strongmen, market deregulation and white supremacist rhetoric.Tech billionaire Elon Musk posted a poll early this morning on X asking, “America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government — Yes or No?” The question was part of a series of misinformation-filled posts on Musk’s X social media platform that led Musk, “appears intent on exercising the same influence in European countries that he did during the American presidential election,” Over the past few days, Musk lashed out at the U.K.’s Labour government, also trashed a U.K. politician he had formerly backed, the anti-immigrant populist Nigel Farage with the far-right Reform UK party. Musk’s change of heart came after Farage refused to support the release from prison of far-right, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic activist Tommy Robinson. Meanwhile, Musk also falsely accused U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute child rapists, and supported a post on X that urged King Charles to dissolve the British Parliament and call elections to remove the Labour government.This comes after Elon Musk also backed Germany’s far-right, anti-immigrant party AfD for next month’s elections and is set to host a live discussion on X with its candidate for chancello

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