Kate is a political correspondent at HuffPost UK. She has worked in the national news since she became a qualified journalist and was previously a reporter with Express.co.uk
Elon Musk was called out on his own platform by X users over his latest bid to smear MPs in the grooming gangs row.government since they won the election. In recent weeks, he has started accusing ministers of inaction over gang rape and child abuse.
But some of those listed are no longer MPs. And, as X users pointed out themselves, the letter is actually from February 2020 and has nothing to do with what Musk claimed.The attached community note read: “This is a letter urging the government to not deport 50 victims of the Windrush Scandal back to Jamaica.Embarrassingly, Musk promoted the community notes feature as his flagship policy when he took over the platform formerly known as Twitter in 2022.
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