Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021
Despite concerns, politicians continue to use Elon Musk's platform in search of a ‘civilised debate’ with constituents
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 ...
How Elon Musk could influence UK politics, amid a clash between his ultra-free speech vision of X and Labour's mission to clamp down on online hate speech
The Guardian :
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...
Sources: X declined requests by the UK's Labour party to take down a deepfake audio clip of leader Keir Starmer, raising concerns ahead of the general election
- Firm rebuffed Labour's request to take down clip, people say — Opposition party is training candidates on disinformation risk
Sources reveal how UK political parties spent ~£3.2M on online ads during 2017 general election, including efforts to coordinate ad targeting on- and off-line
Jim Waterson / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @ruskin147 , @jsavagetweets , @stevenkellow , @josephmdurso , @kadhimshubber , @wallaceme , @g_price , @andydangerfield , and @jimwaterson Tweets: Rory Cellan-Jones ...
Sources reveal how UK political parties spent ~£3.2M on online ads during 2017 general election, including efforts to coordinate ad targeting on- and off-line
Jim Waterson / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @ruskin147 , @g_price , @jsavagetweets , @stevenkellow , @josephmdurso , @andydangerfield , @wallaceme , @kadhimshubber , and @jimwaterson Tweets: Rory Cellan-Jones ...