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"Elon Musk shared a fake
Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was
considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the
Falklands.
Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by
Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it
was deleted.
In it, Musk shared the image posted by the co-leader of the far-right group
Britain First, Ashlea Simon, which she captioned with, “we’re all being
deported to the Falklands”.
The fake piece, purportedly written by a senior news reporter for the
Telegraph and mocked up in the newspaper’s style, said camps in the Falklands
“would be used to detain prisoners from the ongoing riots as the British prison
system is already at capacity”.
The
Telegraph said on Thursday it had never published the article in
question. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Telegraph Media Group said:
“This is a fabricated headline for an article that does not exist. We notified
relevant platforms and requested that the post be taken down.”
In a post on X, the newspaper said it was “aware of an image circulating on X
which purports to be a
Telegraph article about ‘emergency detainment camps’.
No such article has ever been published by the
Telegraph.”
Musk has not apologised for sharing the fake report, but has continued to share
material criticising the UK government and law enforcement authorities’
responses to the riots."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
