Good morning. Later today, Donald Trump will be interviewed by the tech billionaire and owner of X, Elon Musk. It is unlikely to be a particularly searching examination of the former president’s ideas. Musk’s promise: “Entertainment guaranteed!”
By now, the fact that the man who runs one of the most influential social media platforms in the world has no compunction about using it to spread his worldview is well established. Events of the last week have only confirmed it: as a series of far-right riots convulsed the UK – that were to a significant extent fomented on X – Musk’s response was to say that “civil war is inevitable”, describe prosecutors as the “woke stasi”, and spread misinformation himself.
