Elon Musk reposted UK protest details tied to Belfast violence
Elon Musk reposted messages listing planned UK demonstrations, naming Belfast among targeted cities and sharing times and meeting points. Right-wing figures Tommy Robinson and Rupert Lowe also called for street actions, and hours later masked men attacked homes in Belfast. Critics say Musk's reposting and the posts' algorithmic amplification helped mobilize the violence, prompting scrutiny of public-figure responsibility when communications precede street attacks.
there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.
Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸178They banned Piker, they should ban this guy 10x.
Marduk Kurios118If I were the richest man in the world I would choose NOT to make myself a clear national security threat to dozens of powerful countries.
Mike in the Box56Elon Musk did recently stand up on a public platform and call for violently overthrowing the entire British government. If that wasn't enough for the UK to stop doing business with him, I guess nothing will be.
Orange🍊Jay40It won't happen because politicians don't take Musk seriously nor do they take politics as seriously as Musk. Musk thinks he is in an existential battle for the survival of the white race where losing means the rape and murder of all whites. What kind of struggle does Starmer see himself in?
Sarcasmo27May I suggest he be invited to return one more time?
Clio21Musk is an international terrorist
Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen19The best, honestly the very best thing that Kier Starmer could do, other than have the Met release all the Epstein and Maxwell documents that they have collected over the years, is to ban X in the UK. Outright ban. Block it at the server. No other platform, just X.
Naught15Wait, why would this be the final straw when none of the others have been?
Springtime for Hegseth9Apparently this is actually the SECOND time he's stoked a pogrom in the UK!
migginsoldepieshop.bsky.social8Every Labour politician when asked to leave X and challenge Musk. Absolutely shameful.
I keep waiting for a Western European nation to ban Twitter or take some action against Musk, but they’re all cowards. You would think slapping the guy down would be a giant political winner.
“The only minority destroying America is the billionaires”7He’s the richest man in history and he’s a complete POS He could do so much good but he chose hate and fear
Sherry6Musk is evil and manipulative
jim0novak.bsky.social6This is why billionaires are a national security threat BY THEIR VERY EXISTENCE.
Your Ad Here5But why would Labour act against their ideological ally?
J 🇺🇸💥5He’s about to become a trillionaire and quite literally, on his way to becoming the evil, diabolical ruler of the world. What he’s always been working on and deceiving all of us about for decades.
Jess - ReeveApologist4I've written to my MP again this morning on this issue. Additionally, Musk should also be banned from travelling to the UK on the same grounds Ye was. Inciting hatred and violence then doing nothing to stop it.
Irving Dancinginrags3I don't really expect much from Starmer at this point but I think its a test for Burnham too as a leader. If he's going to be a better PM then he should be calling for these kind of steps.
James3Don't bar him from entry. Let him in, hell, INVITE him in...and then lock his evil ass up. Or forward him to the Hague.
Cece Russell-Jayne3So many journalists are still on x. And celebrities too. They are complicit to the power he still amasses.
Sherry2Here is violence in Ireland Immigrants homes burned by fascists in skull masks bsky.app/profile/esqu...
Stoke Newington Gooner2Unfortunately banning him from the UK would have zero impact on him, apart from giving him more ammunition for his ‘free speech’ absolutist nonsense. Agree that govt should immediately withdraw from Twitter though.
John Donnelly2What about Tesla, Starlink, SpaceX?
Cookie Vargas2as should the us and any decent country tat doesn't want to support and enable nazism
Nervously watching what's unfolding in Belfast as racist bigots use a stabbing as an excuse to wreck havoc and mayhem, burning cars & buses, homes, and businesses of ethnic minority residents Meanwhile, Elon Musk is doing his best to escalate the violence. This is a good 🧵 of his efforts on Twitter
Jocelyn Leitzinger32This piece has some good coverage of how these "trigger events" become far right extremist rallying points, tying this latest iteration to ongoing/past pogroms
Justin6It’s disturbing and we can safely assume Russia and non-state actors are also doing their best in service of chaos.
Sarah Kay3I can’t respond to every post unfortunately and we’re all exhausted but once again, this has been going on for years. It is hard to assess whether it is actually getting worse; it seems so to me based on mob size, as 2024 had to import some from Dublin and England.
DavidJohnson_272I can't call for French Revolution. How come he can call for mass murder and riots?!?
A reminder that just last month Kemi Badenoch described Elon Musk as a "goodie".
Iacovos10How does Badenoch seriously think a white South African supremacist Nazi like Musk would ever view her? Don't non-white people who hitch a ride on the wagon of the right realise where it's headed and how the journey ends?
Barry Parmegiana9The Hitler-praising Elon Musk, no less. Not an issue for the British media or the govt, apparently.
Barry6If the cold hard rage was raged against Tesla then I think his response would be slightly different
wethepeople24.bsky.social6Musk says Fuk em I say fuk him!! All countries including ours must ban Musk out of existence
Teacherinrecovery5The reliably wrong Ms Badenoch will be firing on all cylinders at PMQs, I am sure.
Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan3I guess she thought that salute was "sending his love" out despite the grunt and angry face.
Sir Jeremy Hunt on Newsnight says any politician who seeks to exploit the horrendous Belfast stabbing is "utterly despicable", citing Tommy Robinson. Hunt goes on to say of X's Elon Musk "he is using his money in a totally despicable way to foment problems that he will never have to deal with"
Dr Negrin's Victory Pills19Stop making me agree with Jeremy Hunt.
Hunt last posted on X 3 hours ago...
Harry Tuttle6Bollocks. I never wanted to agree with that odious man. But he’s right.
James A5Reputation washing. Stick with the rhyming slang.
Cosmoiselle2Wow. Jeremy's fence seems to have miraculously disappeared... could it be that he hasn't got much of a political career to lose anymore? Embarrassing.
Tommy Robinson has been pouring petrol on the riots in North Belfast, where many houses, cars and buses have been firebombed. I suggest the UK Government send him and Elon Musk the bill.
Polly Curley8Tommeh Ten-Names, Farage, and Musk need to be charged with Incitement, Found guilty, And gaoled.
Dave Lennon5Yaxley-lennon surely please please don't give into his grift everyone who uses TR is building his brand. it seems like a small thing but it isn't because it is you doing his will .... he must never be allowed even the smallest "wins'
Sir Garfield De Umfreville, Baronet Bywell3Kicking off in Glasgow too as normal concerned citizens of not at all Neo- Nazi group White Unity say the Belfast stabber is a quite naughty man who you wouldn’t have a cup of tea with. Or some shit.
scotfi1.bsky.social3How about they just arrest Tommy Ten Names and have him charged with incitement to riot? He advertised these so called protests and encouraged attendance. He should face the consequences for it.
Antonio2The UK not outlawing X is absolutely pathetic
elon musk posts before & after anti immigrant violence in belfast…
Lora Kolodny52reporting on the aftermath of the anti-immigrant “disorder” in belfast- www.bbc.com/news/article...
Handlebar-Orion X.🟦ᴺᵉʳᵈʸ ᵖʳᵒᵍʳᵉˢˢᶦᵛᵉ ᵠᵘᵃᵈʳᵒᵒⁿ ʲᵉʷ5I honestly hope the UN or interpol go after Elon. The AI generated CSAM was enough reason but now he is directly inciting terrorism
dunnersmads.bsky.social2The most dangerous African is Musk. All money and no soul.
Sky Bloo 🏴2When ElonMusk lived in South Africa, did he "protest repeatedly and loudly" about the end of apartheid. No,he fled the country and arrived in Canada as an economic migrant. Then he migrated to the USA. And here we are.
The British government has hit out at Elon Musk, accusing him of whipping up tensions online ahead of disorder in Belfast.
JointheDots4UK Government hosting accounts on X, the platform whose owner is working to destabilise the UK, while handing more contracts to spy tech firms such as Palantir is simply funding, nay investing in our obsolescence.
Jane Harbison3Prosecute Musk for incitement to violence
CTO3Did they post this comms on their X account?
Velvet Abundance 🐸2Good. Now do more. Take action.
![Elon Musk backs far-right, online calls for protests in response to Belfast stabbing
It is not to see why the Police Service of Northern Ireland is worried about disorder tonight. There is a history of anti-immigrant rioting in Northern Ireland, with the most prominent recent example being last year’s mob violence in Ballymena, which led to dozens of Romanian and Bulgarian Roma families having to flee their homes.
Tommy Robinson, the far-right, anti-migrant activist and provocateur, has been using his X account to publicise a list of places where he is calling for “mass protest” in Northern Ireland. Within the last hour, his list has been retweeted approvingly by Elon Musk, who owns X and has 240m followers on the platform.
These are the sorts of people Jon Boutcher, the PSNI chief constable, probably had in mind when he spoke earlier about the risk posed by “people who know nothing about Northern Ireland … [commenting] from afar through social media”. (See 4.49pm.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t5xmf33p5kqgkbznx22p7d7g/bafkreihhzqnzb722tso7cuelx6myoixgsyxkn5gotzyycvc5imugmd5624)
