You may have read about the multiple riots in Great Britain following the stabbing deaths of three children in Southport. How did this horrible crime lead to instant countrywide rioting and attacks on mosques, immigrant shelters, minority shops and stores, and ultimately the police?
The Five Minute News is a free daily pod and YouTube broadcast by Anthony Davis, a British journalist who lives in the US.
This episode is a case study of how disinformation is created and then spread by both foreign media (Russian Today-RT) and domestic extremists.
Disinformation is intentionally designed to spread anger, fear and chaos. It is false. The initial creator in this instance is quickly identified and the post taken down in an hour. But it had already spread throughout the world by social media provocateurs in Britain and elsewhere with this completely made up, totally false, account of the person in custody.
The Role of Musk and X
This broadcast also documents Elon Musk’s role in spreading the false information and augmenting it with other fake documents. He ultimately adds his prediction of civil war in Britain. The country’s far right extremists all amply these apocalyptic predictions.
This is the full broadcast, ten minutes rather than five!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEuJ3V1yzzQ&list=PLGNXhNKeaOmWgTQ3T7oA5ioACZvSB5cRC&index=2)
It should be a mandatory watch for anyone concerned about the state of public discourse and the role of social media in the US and around the world. And the malicious intentions of Elon Musk.