Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts
Votes of millions of people don't count. — Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination. — archive.ph/waCUV ...
Some UK policymakers worry about Elon Musk complicating UK-US ties, as his diatribes against the Labour government extend well beyond tech and free speech
A London-based VC has connected Boris Johnson and the Tesla chief, who Tony Blair has praised as ‘an extraordinary innovator’ Bluesky: @edwardluce , @pickardje , and @bondhack X: @xdaily , @maxtempers...
Nick Clegg criticized Rishi Sunak's doomerism after the PM held a summit on AI safety, saying Britain “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on the risks of AI
The Meta exec and former deputy PM said Britain had “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on the gloomy risks of artificial intelligence.
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views
The reason Musk holds this belief is that he has completely surrounded himself on Twitter with people exactly like the racist hoodlums who have been terrorizing immigrants and asylum seekers. … Joshua...
UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes
British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Twitt...
Mental health content creators on TikTok and Instagram are increasingly filling a health care gap, which critics fear could lead to harmful self-diagnoses
Issey Moloney signed up for therapy through Britain's National Health Service when she was just 12 years old. She was on a waiting list for four years.
YouTube's mistaken deletion of a channel belonging to UK news outlet Novara Media draws criticism over the company's power as a content regulator
or mistakenly enforced. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Novara spent years using YouTube to attract more than 170,000 subscribers for its left-leaning coverage of issues like climate change, ca...
Britain's QAnon movement is still fringe compared to US but shows no signs of stopping, and may have begun with one woman who created the FFTCUK Facebook group
Shayan Sardarizadeh / BBC : Tweets: @ciaranoconnor , @drjohnhorgan , and @franklangfitt Tweets: Ciarn O'Connor / @ciaranoconnor : How did a wide-ranging conspiracy about Satan-worshipping elites in t...
The UK government's efforts to build a centralized contract tracing app from scratch were plagued by poor technical execution and chaotic personnel management
The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app will damage digital contact tracing efforts worldwide—but its troubles were the result of clear, specific errors.
Facebook confirms that a bug caused tens of thousands of now restored ads to disappear from its political ad library, days before UK's general election
just days before the UK goes to the polls. http://www.cnn.com/... @risj_oxford : “The wider systemic issue is why UK politicians have not done anything meaningful to protect the integrity of our elect...