X owner deletes post sharing faked Telegraph article that claimed convicted rioters would be sent to detention camps

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”.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    5 months ago

    “Just a joke” is always the refrain when people call out this brand of nonsense. Drives me mad

    • elfin8er@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      5 months ago

      It’s like when people say “no offense but” and then continue with something offensive. Just because you say no offense, it doesn’t make it not offensive.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      5 months ago

      The government in the UK should buy some space in the Sun and publish an article how the convicted pedophile Musk is found to have a torture chamber in the German Tesla factory and that kind of shit. When Musk inevitably goes ballistic just say it was a joke, then repeat.

    • ChaosppeEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      He seems to forget that a joke has to be funny.