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.

Joined the queue of other people awaiting court rather than bump them further down so their victims have to wait even longer for justice?

Rioting is a danger to the whole country. Swift justice is/was essential as a deterrent.

Exactly, the quicker this is dealt with the sooner we can stop the chaos of the last week and a bit,

But only certain riots?

Riots present a national threat to stability. Plus swift action tends to limit further criminal activity.

He might be good with technology, but he’s an idiot otherwise.🙄

nope, any riot is a danger. HTH.

The BBC has got what looks like a screenshot of Musk’s post.

If they plead guilty and it can be dealt with by the magistrates court then it can be dealt with very quickly.

They aren’t affecting the (ridiculously) long waits for a crown court trial.

Although I would agree that the previous government has decimated the legal system which has led to people waiting years for a crown court trial.

Thing with these cases is there is no file to produce.

It's not a case - like rape - where it is the victims word against the accused and there will be evidence that is used to argue it proves the fact and the defence will be trying to say there's reasonable doubt it does. These aren't cases heard over 2-3 weeks or more with a jury.

These are cases where someone stands in a dock - give a plea - shown a video of them being a twat - remanded or sentenced there and then depending on hearing.

The file is evidence. Are you suggesting not evidence is needed here?

Not at all. India's no long file needs to be collated as you very well know.

They have video files. The evidence is there in black and white showing the crime committed by the accused stood in the dock.

You're clearly intelligent so I'm sure you could have worked that out with me explaining further?

FFS. It was Fake News from a fake article.🙄 Are you normally so gullible and fact resistant?

Are you in the UK? Do you know how our laws and courts work?

Are you aware of how the police work?

I typed out a long post explaining court processes etc but deleted it.

I realised that this isnt about misunderstanding the Uk justice system - this is about promolgating right wing conspiracy theories to justify violence.

I'll leave you to it.

Tell me. I'm all ears.

Surely you mean left wing?

You did better than me.

I typed out a response, pressed send - and then kicked myself for falling for the faux pretence of misunderstanding. I'd gotten really good at spotting certain MOs on here.

No, why would she?

You would have had people who were an immediate public risk en masse still on the street? Of course they should have been caught and detained asap. Who wants mob justice?

I can't stand this utter numpty. I want to rant about him on Twitter, but I'm afraid I'll be banned from there! 😬

in the world of intelligence whos to say for sure weather someone has or has not leaked any plans etc

yet the amount of debatable disinformation at times in the main stream media etc ?

whether.

yeah Musk isn’t important enough or clever enough for that