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.