Billionaire Donald Trump associate Elon Musk’s latest disinformation campaign is targeting the UK government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant.
Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration’s economic policy by proposing cuts to government spending and tech-oriented privatisation of services, signifies a “new era” in American politics, says Quinn Slobodian, who is chronicling right-wing tech billionaires’ accelerating attempts to mould the world according to their “destructive” and “nihilist” beliefs.
In a far-reaching conversation, Slobodian touches on Musk’s clear admiration of authoritarian strongmen, market deregulation and white supremacist rhetoric.
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Musk’s tweet on the “grooming” scandal in the UK was not anti immigrant; he quite specifically targeted the gangs, predominantly Muslims of Pakistani background, of running gangs who sexually abused and raped minors. He called for a national inquiry into the atrocity. It is disingenuous of the author to suggest that it was an anti immigrant tirade.