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How Elon Musk’s Intense Interest In A UK Grooming Gang Scandal Is Being Driven By Disruptive Right-Wing Network GB News
Elon Musk has been tweeting incessantly about a UK grooming gang scandal in the UK — and GB News is influencing the X owner's rhetoric.
Elon Musk has been tweeting incessantly for days about a grooming gang scandal that is setting the political weather in Britain, but the origins of how it came onto the radar of the world’s richest man can be traced back a decade. On New Year’s Day, Peters’ Christmas holiday was interrupted by a source sending him a letter from Jess Phillips, the UK government’s safeguarding minister, stating that Labour had rejected calls to hold a national inquiry into grooming gangs. Musk has engaged with or amplified posts from GB News and its presenters on at least 37 occasions during this period, meaning the disruptive network is having an outsized influence on how Donald Trump’s powerful ally is consuming the story.
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