This does not mean that the problem has been resolved; Alexis Jay, the academic who led the national inquiry into abuse, has said that some of his wider recommendations are 2022 report Has been done But this crisis has been out in the open for some time now, even though Elon Musk only recently decided to make it an issue.
If you’ve been on Platform owner Musk has been constantly posting about it, smearing Labor Minister Jess Phillips, who oversees violence against women and girls, as a “rape-genocide advocate” and calling for her to be jailed. Are doing. he has also been called jailing of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and urged the British monarch to dissolve Parliament and call new elections, which the monarch cannot do.
As the world’s richest man and a semi-official member of Donald Trump’s team, Musk wields immense influence, and his fans in both the United States and Britain have taken up the issue. Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Tories, is demanding a new national inquiry, which her party could have easily done if it was in power until last year. In turn, Starmer was forced to address Musk’s claims on Monday.
In this uproar, we’re witnessing a particularly rabid right-wing version of the old-fashioned Twitter mob, but with far higher stakes. Musk is using real oppression to further his campaign against both Starmers, with whom he has ties long running feud Against regulation of social media and mass immigration. The sheer horror of the underlying story – especially for those who are just discovering it – gives their demagogic attacks an aura of righteousness. But everything he is saying about the culpability of the current government is either distorted or outright false, part of his rapidly expanding campaign against the world’s remaining liberal leaders.
The main source of Musk’s anger is Phillips’ rejection of a request by the town of Oldham to launch a national investigation into the history of child grooming and child sexual abuse there. Phillips said investigations should be initiated at a local level, as had happened in the cities of Rotherham and Telford. I don’t know if it was the right decision or not, but it’s not shocking; As The Independent informedThe previous Tory government had turned down Oldham’s request for the same reason. But to Musk and his followers, it is proof that Phillips, a woman with a long feminist history, engaged in a monstrous cover-up to protect Starmer, the country’s director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013.