Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called Elon Musk’s X platform a ‘very unpleasant and dangerous place’ after their once friendly relationship appears to have soured over Tommy Robinson
Nigel Farage has said Elon Musk’s social media platform X is becoming a very “unpleasant” and “dangerous” place in a new swipe between the pair.
The Reform UK leader said his party’s ethnic minority candidates had received “utterly appalling” online abuse as they prepared for May’s elections in Scotland, Wales and English councils.
Musk, the world’s richest man, acquired Twitter in 2022 before renaming it and reinstating many accounts that had been banned.
The tech billionaire had a friendly relationship with Farage, and there were even rumours he could channel a donation to his party. However, Musk called for him to be replaced during a dispute over his support for right-wing activist Tommy Robinson.
Musk has now publicly endorsed Rupert Lowe’s new political party, Restore Britain, after the MP was let go from Reform UK. Despite being a free speech warrior himself, Farage hit out at X and abuse people have been given on the platform.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday (April 20), Farage said: “The online abuse on X that our minority candidates are receiving is utterly appalling in every way.
“If it was happening to any other candidates from more established parties in the sense of their age, you would all be in total uproar,” he told reporters.
“It really, really is bad,” he said. “X is now becoming a very unpleasant, very dangerous place.”
Farage said the number of ethnic minority candidates his party was standing in the elections was “quite remarkable”.
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