Elon Musk Amplifies Wildly False Anti-Muslim Claims

May 5, 2024 Crackpots, Social Media

The Independent reports:

On Saturday, Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox – who failed to submit the right paperwork to run for mayor and then failed to get elected in the London-wide assembly vote – penned a tweet in which he fumed that a number of elected individuals are all Muslim (even when some of them aren’t). Fox appears to have recycled a viral post which was fact-checked by Full Fact back in 2017.

The 63 per cent figure on Muslim women being out of work and in receipt of benefits and housing support is inaccurate, with the Office for National Statistics reporting in 2021 that the unemployment rate was actually as low as 6.7 per cent. Finally, Full Fact noted in 2017 that the average Muslim household including children has 2.3 children – not six to eight as Fox suggests.

Read the full article. Lawrence Fox appeared here last month when he was ordered to pay $225,000 after calling a RuPaul’s Drag Race UK contestant and an LGBTQ activist “pedophiles” in a social media post. Musk’s simple reply to Fox’s false post has amplified it to nearly 18 million views at this writing.



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