Elon Musk has used his platform X to spread false and divisive rhetoric about Muslim grooming gangs in the UK, amplifying right-wing narratives and inciting violence.
In 2024, Elon Musk ’s attention focused squarely on the US presidential election. But in the early days of 2025, the X owner turned his gaze towards the UK. Musk has feverishly spent the last few days boosting disinformation and divisive rhetoric on X about Muslim grooming gangs in the UK, posting almost 200 times.
These “grooming gangs” reference an organized child sexual abuse scandal that came to light in 2014 involving gangs of British-Pakistani men who abused an estimated thousands of girls in several towns in the north of England over the course of several decades. Musk’s interest in this issue appeared to peak after a new report from right-wing news station GB News claimed the current Labour government has failed to protect the victims by refusing to sanction a government-led inquiry. During his three-day posting binge, Musk has called for UK government officials to be hanged and jailed, demanded the removal of Keir Starmer as UK prime minister, and suggested notorious far-right activist Tommy Robinson be released from prison. Robinson was jailed after admitting contempt of court last year for continually repeating false claims about a Syrian refugee that led to the refugee and his family receiving death threats. Musk has falsely claimed that Robinson was jailed for “telling the truth” about grooming gangs. Musk is also pushing the narrative that organized child sex abuse is carried out almost exclusively by Muslim men, when a 2020 UK government study found that was not the case. Musk’s flurry of posts and replies comes just months after anti-immigrant riots roiled the UK, fomented by far-right activists who spread misinformation about a knife attack. Musk’s posts, which have racked up hundreds of millions of views on X, are just his latest effort at inserting himself into UK politic
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