Musk’s X ‘amplified hate speech and disinformation’ in grooming gangs debate – report

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1. Elon Musk and his platform X played a central role in amplifying Islamophobic narratives around grooming gangs in the UK, a damning new report has said.

   The Centre for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) said X had become a “high-velocity distribution channel” for hate speech and conspiracy theories, particularly targeting British-Pakistani men and other South Asian and immigrant communities.

   The CSOH report “Racialised Grooming Gangs: Elon Musk, X, and Amplification of Islamophobia in the UK” looks at the tech billionaire’s influence in the debate around grooming gangs earlier this year. In January, Musk repeatedly posted or reposted about child grooming in the UK, accusing the Labour government of not doing enough to tackle it and calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “to go to prison”.

   Based on an analysis of 1,365 posts with over 1.5 billion engagements, the report found that Musk’s personal interventions – alongside far-right channels – played a pivotal role in “weaponising” the grooming gang discourse to scapegoat Muslims in the country, particularly British Pakistani men.

   “This report finds that X became a central hub for the spread of these narratives. In particular, we identified coordinated global activity involving individuals and organisations linked to promoting Islamophobic content. The ‘grooming gangs’ discourse must also be understood as part of the global far-right’s broader search for political legitimacy in a post-2024 UK.”

2. You mean a platform owned by a racist billionaire is being used to peddle racist narratives. Imagine my shock

3. Yet Starmer does nothing…

   History will be very harsh on the democratically elected leaders who didn’t understand Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance, we’ve clearly entered the “they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols” phase. The objective truth is called ‘fake news’ the algorithms used by Twitter to promote/hide stories are bent to Musk’s will.

4. SWITCH. IT. OFF! The guys a fucking nazi for fucks sake.

5. I made an account I made an account to follow football transfers.

   The first post on my feed was about “UK FREE SPEECH CHAOS” sponsored by Reform.

   It’s a propaganda tool to ragebait people into engaging with content that has zero credibility.

6. **Musk’s X amplified hate speech and disinformation**

   Could have stopped there and it would be just as appropriate for everything…

7. Once again your daily reminder to dump that shit hole of a site

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