Depending on who you talk to in Europe, Elon Musk is either a courageous champion of free speech hero or a petulant and dangerous troublemaker.“He’s using his superpowers to say, ‘I’m going to give a voice to the voiceless.’ He’s a once-in-a-multigeneration human being. He’s my hero. He’s amazing,” said author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a critic of Islam and former Dutch politician, on the podcast, Honestly.
According to Ian Hislop, editor of the British satirical newspaper Private Eye, Musk is “a classic social media adolescent who hasn’t grown up – the temper tantrums, the lack of responsibility.”
He recently told LBC radio in the United Kingdom that Musk is “riddled with contradictions, and at some point, I am hoping that even his followers will begin to notice that from sentence to sentence, he makes no sense.”
Musk, the tech billionaire who owns X and backed United States President Donald Trump, is at the centre of several debates in Europe having fanned British politics into a firestorm by amplifying attacks on Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer and platforming Germany’s far right. Advertisement
At one point on X Musk asserted, “Starmer is evil.”
He threw his narrative-shaping powers behind an opposition Conservative campaign in the UK to reopen an inquiry into what it called a sexual abuse coverup by police and prosecutors.
The abusers in question, dubbed grooming gangs, were British men of Pakistani heritage who sexually assaulted white underage girls in to …