Humza Yousaf: Elon Musk spreads disinformation

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Billionaire businessman Elon Musk is using his platforms and position to spread false information with dire consequences, former First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf says.

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00:00Yeah, just picking up on that influence that he's got on the United Kingdom, I mean, do you see him

00:06succeeding in his goal? I mean, is he making traction, would you say, in terms of achieving

00:11that objective? Of course he's making traction because he's extremely powerful, and of course

00:16completely unaccountable. So he owns a platform, X of course, which has 650 million users, double

00:24the size of the United States population. So he has a huge platform which he owns, and he spreads

00:31disinformation, and of course admitted to that. He was in the Oval Office just yesterday,

00:39you know, his office really, as opposed to Donald Trump's. Donald Trump was sitting there quietly

00:44like a good boy listening to the puppet master, and there was Elon Musk saying he was questioned

00:50about his incorrect and inaccurate statement around 50 million US dollars going to Gaza

00:59in the Middle East. And of course it turned out 50 million US dollars was not going to Gaza in

01:04the Middle East, it was going to a place called Gaza and I think Mozambique. And he said, oh look,

01:09at times I do make inaccurate and incorrect statements, and then I go to correct them. Well,

01:14you didn't correct that statement is the entire point. What Elon Musk does is he is the cheerleader

01:18in chief when it comes to spreading disinformation. And by the time if he corrects that information,

01:24which he really does, but if he does, then I'm afraid the consequences have already been felt,

01:29usually by minority communities.

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