Billionaire BS: How can Britain Stop Musk’s Disinformation?
Pod Save the UK
Pod Save the UK
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year - is 2025 going to be the year of disinformation? Elon Musk started in attack mode with a flood of vitriolic and false tweets about UK grooming gangs. In Musk’s crosshairs: Keir Starmer and safeguarding minister Jess Phillips. He accused them both of cover ups. Can Nish and Coco survive a year of Musk madness - the man who already makes Nish want to “eat his own anus”?
We’re joined by political journalist Zoë Grünewald to discuss how to fight the disinformation invasion and what else might be in store in 2025 - from Reform eating the Tories to Labour delivering some much-needed change. And just when we thought we were done with billionaire BS - Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta is scrapping its fact-checking service and Andrew Tate launched a new political party.
And poor Nish is under fire from GB News for “unnecessary political swipes”on the BBC. A word to GB News - unnecessary political swipes is what Nish does! Brace yourselves - it’s a wild first show back.
Guests:
Zoë Grünewald
Audio credits:
The Guardian
BBC
Sky News
Mark Zuckerberg
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm GoCocard. And I'm Nish Kumar and we're back. |
| 0:07.8 | What the hell was that? It's my air horn sound. It sounded like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, look at you. Look at you. Da-da-da-da-da. Isn't that a disco tune? I'm really showing my lack of cultural awareness. |
| 0:20.5 | Nish, it sounds like you've had a pretty eventful new year. |
| 0:24.2 | Let me read you a headline from Gibi News. |
| 0:26.8 | Nish Kumar, sparks BBC hoot and nanny switch off threats with unnecessary politics swipe. |
| 0:31.8 | Hugely unfunny. What happened? |
| 0:33.7 | I don't really know what to say about these people anymore. |
| 0:35.6 | I have no interest in engaging with them. There was just a section of the British press that |
| 0:40.6 | enjoys soiling itself for attention. Okay, well, let me fill the audience in on what GB News |
| 0:45.3 | was so upset by. So Jules Holland asked you if there was anything you wanted to look back on |
| 0:50.3 | and you said, well, the Conservative Party lost the election and I was rock hard for a week, Jules. |
| 0:55.4 | And at 39, that's quite hard to come by. |
| 0:58.0 | Am I lying? I'm 39. My erections are not what they once were. |
| 1:05.6 | Anyway, straight into politics. This week, Elon Musk has turned his BS rate up to 11 and aimed it squarely |
| 1:11.7 | at Westminster. He spent his Christmas break, making an escalating series of misleading claims |
| 1:16.8 | against Prime Minister Kirstama and the Labour government. But what else are you going to do over |
| 1:20.3 | Christmas when none of your children will speak to you? The most incendiary of his claims is that |
| 1:24.9 | members of grooming gangs who systematically raped girls were not |
| 1:28.7 | prosecuted by Keir Stama when he led the Crown Prosecution Service. Now, like any good conspiracy |
| 1:34.9 | theory, there is a kernel of truth in this. In 2009, the CPS dismissed some cases in Rotherham |
| 1:40.6 | when CPS lawyers, in all their wisdom, decided that the victims would not be |
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