UK Anti-Extremism Unit Is Monitoring Musk’s Posts
The BBC reports:
UK officials are monitoring social media posts by Elon Musk and others as a possible security risk. The monitoring is being carried out by a team in the Home Office’s Homeland Security group, which is responsible for reducing national security risks and, according to a government website, “focuses on the highest harm risks to the homeland”.
They are looking at the reach of posts and who is engaging with them. The monitoring of Musk’s social media output is understood to have begun after he made comments about Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips.
The US tech billionaire called Phillips a “rape genocide apologist” and said she should be jailed. The Labour minister, who ran a domestic abuse refuge before becoming an MP and has long campaigned to tackle violence
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