Can parliament control Elon Musk?

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Whatever happens on the streets of Britain, there's always an Elon Musk tweet. Often misinformed. Now parliament wants to take Musk on - or "invite him to explain" what's going on. The protests in the summer following the Southport stabbings were a critical example of how fast and how dangerously lies can spread online. Today, in her first broadcast interview, we hear from the chair of the Science and Technology Committee, Chi Onwurah, on her proposals to stop the spread of disinformation on the various media platforms. And we ask if it's still true that 'no one is above the law'?

Later, we ask what's happening in Ukraine, where British storm shadow missiles have been fired into Russia for the first time. Can this change the ground game for Volodymyr Zelensky? And is Putin serious about changing his rules of nuclear engagement? We hear from former defence minister James Heappey.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.0	This is a global player original podcast.
0:24.7	Remember that sound?
0:30.9	That was the sound coming out of the riots following the Southport stabbings back in the summer.
0:41.4	And it seems extraordinary that even now, we cannot source back the disinformation to one single person conclusively. But what we can say is that a clear pattern of social media influencers were driving a message
0:48.5	for people to start to gather for the protests and start a series of actions that would see many, many people
0:57.0	facing prison terms.
0:59.0	But how do you hold to account social media companies who have a global presence, who are not
1:05.2	answerable to the British Parliament, and in particular when it's Elon Musk, who doesn't
1:10.5	have much respect for what the
1:12.5	British government is doing, is there anything that our lawmakers can do to bring the social media
1:19.7	companies into line? Welcome to the newsagents. The News Agents.
1:28.6	It's John.
1:29.3	It's Emily.
1:29.8	It's Lewis.
1:30.6	And you do get this general impression that everyone is scratching their heads about sort of an errant pupil at your school and saying, what can we do about him?
1:39.9	He's brilliant, but he's wayward.
1:41.2	He's brilliant, but he's wayward.
1:42.5	And he just can't accept any kind of rules of the game.
1:45.9	And that is where we are.
1:46.9	It feels like with Elon Musk, particularly because he has taken such an interest, it would seem, in all matters British.
1:57.6	And broadly speaking, it feels to me that there are two approaches.
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