Elon Musk and his platform X played a central role in amplifying Islamophobic narratives around grooming gangs in the UK, a damning new report has said.
The Centre for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) said X had become a “high-velocity distribution channel” for hate speech and conspiracy theories, particularly targeting British-Pakistani men and other South Asian and immigrant communities.
The CSOH report “Racialised Grooming Gangs: Elon Musk, X, and Amplification of Islamophobia in the UK” looks at the tech billionaire’s influence in the debate around grooming gangs earlier this year. In January, Musk repeatedly posted or reposted about child grooming in the UK, accusing the Labour government of not doing enough to tackle it and calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “to go to prison”.