French President Emmanuel Macron used a speech on Monday to fire a warning at the tech billionaire, accusing him of meddling in foreign politics in an attempt to support a “new international reactionary movement”.
The warnings came shortly after the Prime Minister insisted that a “line had been crossed” over the online debate sparked by Musk about historic child sexual exploitation abuses in the UK.
“Ten years ago, who could have imagined it if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany,” Macron said.
“This is not the way things should be between democracies and allies.”
Speaking on Sunday, he said: “I find it much more worrying than such insults that Musk is supporting a party like the AfD, which is in parts right-wing extremist, which preaches rapprochement with Putin’s Russia and wants to weaken transatlantic relations.”
“We will look at the systemic risks that can come from certain practices on a platform — such as a live-stream — for example, the boosting, the recommender systems,” Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier told reporters on Monday.
Senior Labour backbencher Stella Creasy told The i Paper more needed to be done to stand up to figures, such as Musk.
The Prime Minister chose to head off attacks led by Musk over his and his ministers’ handling of child grooming gang cases, warning it was a “slippery slope” if truth no longer mattered in political debate.
But the Prime Minister was scathing in his criticism of the “lies and misinformation” being spread online by Musk – accusing those involved of being “desperate for attention” and focused on themselves, rather than on vulnerable children.
Responding to questions after a speech in Surrey, Starmer said: “Those spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves.”
The PM challenged the Tory opposition party to call out the lies being spread.
The row prompted by Musk’s comments has seen Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch call for a “full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal” and the Tories have now tabled an amendment to the Government’s Children’s Wellbeing Bill on Wednesday to try to force a vote on the issue.
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