“Figures like Musk putting out this frankly inflammatory stuff and promoting it…the effect of that is palpable.”
Families have kept their children inside today ahead of possible disorder on the streets, as online platforms are actively “whipping up some of the tensions” by amplifying inflammatory posts, reports The Times’s correspondent, Constance Kampfner.
Constance Kampfner was speaking to Kait Borsay on The Evening Edition on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 7pm–10pm.
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