Elon Musk has said UK MPs “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens” in a fresh escalation of tensions between the world’s richest man and Labour.

Musk, who has been a fixture at the side of Donald Trump since his re-election as US president, was responding to a Guardian report on Wednesday that the Commons’ science and technology select committee would call him to give evidence in the new year in its inquiry into the spread of harmful content on social media after the August riots.

The committee’s chair, Chi Onwurah, a Labour MP, said she wanted to see how Musk, who owns the X social media platform, “reconciles his promotion of freedom of expression with his promotion of pure disinformation”.

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  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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    2914 hours ago

    But what if they summon 2 healing elves and a mighty centaur back? What are you gonna do then, Elon?

    • @hakunawazo
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      1914 hours ago

      I haven’t a strong opinion about cursive but about overly influential billionaires.

    • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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      814 hours ago

      I should probably pre-apologize for that joke. I don’t play a lot of fantasy games and I don’t really know what gets summoned. I promise, though, I’m a big enough nerd for Lemmy. I have 3 telescopes and probably every Raspberry Pi model if we look through the drawers in my soldering desk.

      I should probably pre-apologize for this joke too.

      • @WindyRebel
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        311 hours ago

        If you can summon from the fey realm, all of that is possible - and more!