Scottish Labour MP Blair McDougall said 'people like Musk are now using their power and their platform to try to take control of our politics and distract us' from challenging the super rich.
Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic, Russian professor at the University of Manchester, told a House of Commons committee that the social media owner's "potential influence in the UK is greater than that of Russia."
When asked by East Renfrewshire MP McDougall how X owner Musk compared to states as a threat of disinformation, Tolz-Zilitinkevic said: "When we talk about risk to states, either from individual actors or these organised influence campaigns, I think there's a huge distinction between... if we take operations from Russia specifically to established Western democracies such as the UK or US internally, the influence on the population, the threat is not great.
He accused former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown of having “committed an unforgivable crime against the British people” and “sold those little girls for votes”, over his handling of grooming gangs while in office.
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