By Natasha Devon MBE

In this week’s PMQs, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Daisy Cooper once again took the opportunity to warn about Elon Musk’s meddling in democracy via his platform X, as well as to question the government’s perceived inaction over it.

She was right to do so. Whilst Musk denies politically motivated algorithm-tweaking, when he took over Twitter, it almost instantly became a sewer of far-right, racist and misogynist bilge, which users had to wade through before attempting anything resembling a civilised discussion.

Additionally, the team that runs X seemingly does almost nothing to curb disinformation and hate speech. In fact, Musk regularly shares disinformation with his 228 million followers. As we saw with the hideous riots of summer 2024, it only takes a minority of angry people to inflict chaos and violence on our streets.

Arguably, without Farage amplifying disinformation about the perpetrator of the Southpark attack, which killed three local girls in Southport via his X account,........

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