Research by The Economist  analysing several years' of posts appearing on Elon Musk's social media platform X, reveals a hefty bias that falsely portrays London as a cess pit of serious crime. The actual stats for homicide and stabbings  point to a polar opposite truth being suffocated by this 'fog of fake news' being stirred in a cauldron of algorithmic spells, writes Jason Tanner from the volunteer led  defend uk campaign for fairer free speech.

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The facts of London's serious crime struggling to penetrate the news fog on X:

London has the lowest levels of the most serious crimes compared to its counterparts in the USA and Europe. This includes homicides and stabbings as illustrated in the above charts.

A short showreel hosted by Instagram neatly presents The Economist's key findings and can be accessed by clicking here or using the QR code.

The research mirrors the observations and research of the volunteer founder of the Defend UK Campaign for Fairer Free Speech who had himself spotted almost formulaic patterns of postings seemingly intending to stir tensions to a new level and destabilise elected democracies that not only included the UK but extended, to other  countries he observed to include Australia, Ireland, Spain, Italy and other EU states.

defend's Jason Tanner observed for many countries the  linking of highly emotive issues such as rape and child abuse with repeated  and statistically inaccurate  and often dehumanising and racist links to immigration and the Islamic faith.

Simple tracking reveals that Elon Musk allowed and supported many inflammatory posts on X. Fairly basic tracking also records what Tanner terms as 'mouthpiece' profiles repeatedly portraying X as  the only real truth people need compared to the disparigingly termed legacy media facing suffocation by sweeping 'fake' claims that they all carried 'fake news' coupled with unfairly expensive lawsuit threats from the wealthy. This subdues presenting people with a wide range of information from different outlets. Attempts to destroy it clearly makes no sense for encouraging fairer free speech to flourish properly for the people it was intended for.

As with the Economist and others, Tanner also notes clear parallel messaging with Donald Trump, who Elon supported to election victory in 2024 .

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