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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

TechScape: Why Musk’s rabble-rousing shows the limits of social media laws

Rabble-rouser … Twitter/X chief Elon Musk.
Rabble-rouser … Twitter/X chief Elon Musk. Photograph: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

What can the UK government do about Twitter? What should it do about Twitter? And what does Elon Musk even care?

The multibillionaire owner of the social network, still officially branded as X, has had a fun week stirring up unrest on his platform. Aside from his own posts, a mixture of low-effort memes that look as if they’re lifted straight from 8chan and faux-concerned reposts of far-right personalities, the platform at large briefly became a crucial part of the organisation of the disorder – alongside the other two of the three Ts: TikTok and Telegram.

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