Bridget Phillipson says Tory approach to bill will ‘kill it stone dead’ after PM says opposition more interested in retweets than safeguarding
Elon Musk has posted more than 200 messages on X about grooming gangs in the UK, according to the Times’ Steven Swinford. In one of his latest overnight messages, Musk claims that Keir Starmer is opposed to a new inquiry because he is “hiding terrible things”.
As Sunder Katwala, head of the British Future thinktank, points out, this is almost 100% wrong.
The truth about Keir Starmer’s role – that he was among a few individuals to do most to break this sorry saga, with the prosecutions of 2009-10 making it a national issue from 2011, and the new guidelines to believe victims from the CPS – is exactly the opposite of Musk’s ravings.
The headlines over the last couple of days illustrate how potent misinformation on social media can be. Social media is a place where one post, even if false, can be amplified to reach millions of people.
Last summer, false and harmful content spread across social media caused violence on our streets. We shouldn’t accept viral misinformation – or the real-world harm it causes – as an inevitable part of social media, and we must make sure that false online content doesn’t fuel violent attacks in the UK again.
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