Elon Musk says Donald Trump's Twitter ban was wrong - as Sadiq Khan ties a huge leap in racist abuse he received to Trump's election
Sadiq Khan tied racist abuse to Mr Trump's time as president.Sadiq Khan has revealed he endured more than 200,000 explicitly racist or racialised social media messages since his election as London mayor – as "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk takes over Twitter.The richest man in the world has announced Donald Trump would no longer be banned from the platform after he was booted off following the US Capitol riots that followed his election defeat.
"It is a fact the year when he stopped being president, and he was taken off Twitter, it shot down hugely." Notably, it has been revealed Mr Khan suffered more racist abuse from US users than British ones in 2016 and 2017.The abuse rose from 9% of the content coming from across the Atlantic to 47% in 2016. That level stayed at 47% in 2017 and 33% in 2018.