Musk attacks 'woke stasi' as UK tries to stop online hate

Billionaire social media boss Elon Musk has launched another attack on the British authorities attempting to tackle far-right hate riots in the UK.

- DAVID MADDOX

The owner of Twitter/X posted "woke stasi" yesterday in response to the director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson promising to prosecute people who post or report material that incites racial hatred on social media platforms.

Musk also retweeted a post by the co-leader of the far-right Britain First party Ashlea Simon with the comments “detainment camps”. Ms Simon had tweeted an image of a fake story about Sir Keir Starmer considering building emergency detainment camps in the Falkland Islands with the claim “we’re all being deported to the Falklands”.

The image had been made to look as though the story was published by the Telegraph but that publication issued a statement saying: “No such article has ever been published by the Telegraph.” Politics UK editor Josh Self claimed that Musk’s post, since deleted, was seen by “almost 1 million people in 15 minutes”. He called it “utterly dystopian”.