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Now Scotland’s First Minister hits out at Musk

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Elon Musk’s war on the SNP was on no one’s bingo card this year – but the animosity has ramped up after First Minister John Swinney waded into the row. The SNP leader is the latest UK politician to take a pop at Musk, blasting the tech billionaire for allowing Twitter to become a ‘platform of the fomenting of hate’, adding that the language used by the Twitter boss was ‘not only reprehensible, it’s baseless’. Ouch.

Honest John has gone so far as to suggest that the US businessman hadn’t removed racist posts from the social media platform because he agreed with them. Scotland’s FM fumed:

I think it tells us all we need to know about the degree to which [Twitter] is essentially being used as a platform for the fomenting of hate within our society. Ofcom reminded social media companies of their obligation to take down material that incites hatred or racism or violence.

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