Elon Musk retweets and then deletes a fake news story about the UK Government setting up detainment camps

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Elon Musk shares fake news claiming UK rioters will be sent to ‘detainment camps’ – POLITICO

Unbelievable and incredibly irresponsible

No wonder advertisers don't want to be on his site.

It's so so easy to spread fake news but not easy to correct the record. People read and believe what they want to believe.

But when someone with so many followers retweets fake news like this - it's dangerous.

Which is why i laugh whenever people claim X is the best social media cos they stop misinformation... those community notes are not enough for the rampant fake news all over that cesspit.

He’s a fud, an irresponsible and arrogant one at that.

At this point, i can't wait for X to inevitably just stop being a platform. It's unusable due to the stupid changes he made.

good usage of fud 👏🏼

A supposedly intelligent man who is as thick as sh*t. So far up himself he could perform his own tonsillectomy.

Ive deactivated twitter. Im not encouraging him

I think we all need to boycott Twitter. It has become a cesspit, and Musk seems to be adding to the shit.

He’s a complete tosser!

He's a repugnant man and as such I deleted my twitter the moment he bought it. Thank fuck for that. And that was before he pumped out fake shit and expressed abhorrent opinions. I strongly suggest everyone else does too.

I heard a police chief say on the news a couple of days ago that Elon should stick to cars and rockets. His recent comments are reprehensible.

People need to stop using Twitter, he is just driving traffic to the site. And maybe stop buying Teslas

closed my account today, that man is a pest

What is the substantive difference between ‘detainment camps’ and prison?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/05/extra-500-prison-cells-rioters-inmates-move-cobra-mahmood/

Very simple difference - prisons hold people as part of a judicial process, detainment/internment/concentration camps just hold people for being those people

Also the prisons aren’t on the Falkland Islands…
What a daft comparison.

Fucking hell.

No point trying to write dystopian speculative fiction any more.

If you are in prison then you've been found guilty in a court.
If you are on remand you because one a number of set reasons (previous convictions, likelihood of re offending etc)

Detainment or what was inferred by the fake article, internment, requires neither charges nor intent to file charges.

You're embarrassing yourself.🙈

I've deactivated my Twitter account today. Fuck him and his divisive shit stirring.

Can't lie, Bluesky seems a bit of a pale imitation and there's no GC women which is a bit sad, but I'm not giving Musk one more bit of ad revenue via my eyeballs.

nc for this

this is my one and only post on Elon.

can pp please just use google to read which country he was born and raised in? yup, there in lies all the answers you will need.

as you can see, I have no time for Elon, however, I have enjoyed him putting his 2 fingers up at starmer and uk politicians who always go for the weakest person. now waiting to hear what big punishment they will give to Elon. yes, some of us have long given up on the 'idea' we ever had freedom of speech in this country. quite used to it now so I share nothing online. nothing at all.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to disseminate disinformation which that article was.

I didn't comment on disinformation which is unlawful - in case that was unclear to anyone.

It is wrong, but unlawful? The BBC regularly disseminates misinformation - calling male sex attackers women, and we have had days of press calling a male boxer ‘she’. Unfortunately no one has been arrested for that yet. We’ve also had a PM label all rioters ‘far right’ which is also disinformation (some might be, they are all thugs). The internet and MSM is full of disinformation.

The rioters were made up of the far right, but i don't see how you can argue that the rioters are anything but far right?

not going to bother talking about your other point. Considering you have no evidence as none has been provided, it's just weird to be do vehemently on board with a claim a single corrupt organisation made.

Which ‘weakest person’ do you think Starmer has gone for @reallyreallyok ?
Seems to me he’s simply supported the police in arresting and charging thugs 🤷‍♀️