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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  • @[email protected]
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    347 days ago

    Pretty arrogant of him to think that UK MPs are willing to travel to America to be mansplained to by a South African emerald mine nepo baby.

  • Adderbox76
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    206 days ago

    The idiot man-child can “summon” as much as he wants, but they’re sovereigns of another country and can’t make them do shit if they don’t feel like it.

  • @FangedWyvern42
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    297 days ago

    Since this is clearly a threat from a powerful individual towards MPs, this should be cause enough to charge Musk with some kind of crime and issue an arrest warrant in this country.

    • @clutchtwopointzero
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      117 days ago

      Nah, the UK had murders committed by state actors in their soil and nothing came out of it

  • @RadioFreeArabia
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    186 days ago

    This person just keeps getting worse. To think that The Simpsons had Lisa sing his praises.

  • @FelixCress
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    187 days ago

    I wish Crown Prosecution Service would just issue an arrest warrant for him.

  • @Maggoty
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    187 days ago

    Hahahaha haha hahahahahahaha

    Oh that’s a good one.

  • Ænima
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    Who does he think he is? He’s like the kid that teamed up with the bullies and now tries to speak as though he has the same authority, lol. He’s a mere magazine cover away from being shit-canned, as others who took tRump’s limelight away discovered. I’ll have popcorn ready to watch Musk get the Banon treatment!

    • LustyArgonian
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      26 days ago

      It’s almost like he gave Trump an advantage so huge he owes him, huh? Like it’s weird Trump isn’t reeling him in at all, right? Anyone?

      • Ænima
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        14 days ago

        And if he was paying attention and not snorting cocaine off a cyber truck’s ass, he’d have seen how tRump treats those around him, especially when the other takes the spotlight. Musk is doing the “fuck around” part and will soon feel the “find out” part once tRump no longer needs him.

  • @iAvicenna
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    told you he was gonna act like this to empty threats. he is acting not just like a spoiled kid but like an enabled one, the worst kind.

  • @mPony
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    66 days ago

    Why is The Guardian amplifying this idiocy?

    • LustyArgonian
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      Wdym “amplifying?” It’s already amplified - Elon is acting in an official-unofficial way with the incoming Trump admin. It’s what happened. The Guardian is literally just reporting it and not advocating for a side or a position. Like it or not what Elon wants and says now matters. Even if we ignore him, the government will still act on what he says.

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    1657 days ago

    The probable response I’m expecting from British MPs (and government): “Shut the fuck up.”

    Musk is such an insufferably man-child. The UK government should just restrict or ban Twitter. It’s a shithole network that is hemorrhaging users. Blue Sky or Mastodon can pick up any of the surplus demand. And nothing of value would be lost if Twitter dies.

    • @DrCake
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      1117 days ago

      Just get all government accounts off Twitter. A lot of people still use Twitter because of these “important” accounts, the less of them, the more people are happy to move elsewhere.

    • @disgrunty
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      57 days ago

      Farage and his Reform party exists. So that’s at least one MP that I could see saying yes.

      • @RadioFreeArabia
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        46 days ago

        I’m surprised anyone still listens to him. His whole thing with Brexit was taking the money sent to the EU to fund the NHS. It was obviously lies, but many Brexit supporters made this argument.

        • @disgrunty
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          36 days ago

          God, I forgot about that. I used to work in an office full of Farage fans and that was one of the most common threads back in 2016. There was a large amount of open racism, too. It was an experience.

      • @[email protected]
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        127 days ago

        I’m pretty sure even Farage doesn’t want to fly to America to get his ass kicked. He might to suck some billionaire cock, though.

  • @ThePyroPython
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    857 days ago

    With what authority Musk? Oh yeah that’s right, you have none. You hold no elected position in government.

    Just to piss him off, the UK should open the second spaceport in Wales and give launch access to Ariane, ULA, Rocket Lab, and Firefly.

  • @Siegfried
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    Does he think he is the leader of the world or something? A week ago or so, he said that if the EU limits starlink in anyway, USA will pull off from NATO

    • @Psythik
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      427 days ago

      Yes he does. As someone else stated in another thread, going full Nazi was Elon’s way of becoming President of the United States without actually having to be born there.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      327 days ago

      I mean, yeah he does. He’s a narcissistic loon