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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Backlash after Elon Musk labels Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf racist

Humza Yousaf
The excerpt of Yousaf’s statement has been amplified in Scotland by far-right nativist groups Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Elon Musk has provoked a furious backlash in Scotland by accusing Humza Yousaf of being “a blatant racist” after the tech billionaire saw a highly selective clip of a speech by the first minister.

Musk, the owner of Tesla, Space X and the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, reacted to a 45-second clip of Yousaf listing all the senior public posts in Scotland held by white people, which was posted on X by an anonymous account called End Wokeness.

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