Elon Musk deletes X post after falling for fake news story by far-right organisation Britain First

Elon Musk has taken a rare step back in his dispute with the British government by deleting one of his posts that was based on a fake news story about prisoners being sent to emergency camps on the Falklands Islands.

Tesla owner posted Two words Comment to his 193 million followers: “Concentration camps.”

He deleted the post from his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, 35 minutes later, presumably after realizing he had been pranked. It has been reported that he was seen. Almost 2 million times.

The fake story was Published as received By the co-leader of a far-right political group called Britain First and mocked for resembling the United Kingdom Daily TelegraphThe headline was: “Keir Starmer considers building ’emergency detention camps’ in Falkland Islands.”

Under this slogan was: “The camps will be used to detain prisoners from the ongoing riots because the British prison system is already reaching its maximum capacity.”

Alistair Campbell, former Downing Street spokesman for Tony Blair and the Labour Party, and now a broadcaster and podcaster, She replied To the deleted post on X with: “Well, thank God for that. This is what you get when you click on @Elon Musk Reposting fake news by Britain First, a bunch of fascist thugs. Maybe just this once, an adult will stand aside and say, “Oh my God, can you stop acting like a three year old?” I’m really looking forward to his interview with Trump. Two own goals together.

The deleted post did nothing to slow Musk’s criticism of Britain’s new Labour government over its handling of far-right riots that have swept through cities across the country. It has been published“Woke Stacy” with a story saying that British authorities will charge people who retweet “hateful” material.

Musk highlighted another post from Sky News on the same story, which included a comment that could be seen as a reference to the fake post he had previously deleted: “This is actually happening.” he wrote.

Tesla billionaire owner He was at enmity With British Prime Minister Keir Starmer all week, he at one point claimed that “civil war is inevitable” in the wake of riots fuelled by fake news sparked by the far right following the fatal stabbings of three girls in Southport in northern England.

Telegraph Later Issue a statement regarding X “This means that The Telegraph is aware of an image circulating on X website purporting to be a Telegraph article about ‘emergency detention camps’. The Telegraph has never published such an article before.”