Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport much worse

We’re in danger of sleepwalking back in time to the world dissected by Hannah Arendt six years after World War Two: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (ie the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (ie standards of thought) no longer exist.”

Whole article is worth a read. What we’re seeing across the UK following the Southport murders is horrific. And it’s hard to disagree with the premise that X is making it worse and shoulders culpability.