Lib Dems call for national security services to ‘assess threat’ Elon Musk poses to British democracy

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00:00On Monday, the far-right racist hate preacher Tommy Robinson, who is currently on trial for

00:06allegedly refusing to comply with counter-terror police, claimed that his legal costs are being

00:12paid by Elon Musk. It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read

00:19online every day could be funding someone who stokes far-right extremism on our streets.

00:25If this was Putin, the government surely would act. So will the Prime Minister commission

00:31the security services to assess the threat that Elon Musk poses to our democracy and recommend

00:37measures to this House that we can take to stop it?

00:40I can tell that we do look across the board at threats to our democracy and must continue

00:46to do so. I won't comment on the particular case given the state of legal proceedings.