X owner deletes post sharing faked Telegraph article that claimed convicted rioters would be sent to detention camps

Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands.

Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was deleted.

In it, Musk shared the image posted by the co-leader of the far-right group Britain First, Ashlea Simon, which she captioned with, “we’re all being deported to the Falklands”.

  • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    4 months ago

    In old days we would have admins block sites on their networks. I guess this time everyone looks up to the government to do it

    • xmunkEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      The issue is that reasonable people become irrational with anonymity and the culture Musk has built up on X feeds right into that. I think X is a social danger that people are unable to safely consume without being extremized.

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      You can do it on your own machine, but an ISP doing it would violate the now reinstated Net Neutrality rules.