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How X became the global right’s supercharged front page, as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics — and in those of other countries
Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countries
This week, X single-handedly revived a scandal about British “grooming gangs” – groups of men of primarily, but not exclusively, Pakistani descent who are known to have sexually abused hundreds of young girls in northern England in the 1990s and 2000s while local authorities often failed to act. With a single retweet, often accompanied by just a few words (“This is interesting”) or an emoji, Musk can put a post by an anonymous or relatively obscure rightwing X account in front of his 210 million followers – more than five times the population of Canada. As many as 2.7 million people have departed X since the US presidential election, with many prominent journalists, pundits and left-leaning social media users angry at Musk’s politics joining alternative platforms such as Bluesky.
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