Yousaf: Musk is ‘one of the most dangerous men on the planet’

At a sparsely-attended event at the Edinburgh Festival, Yousaf, in conversation with Stadlen, criticises Musk:

I have to say, in my opinion, he is one of the most dangerous men on the planet. He is accountable to nobody, he has vast wealth at his fingertips. He has vast wealth at his fingertips, and he uses it for some of the most wicked evil I’ve seen. He is not an idiot — Elon Musk is very smart, very tech-savvy.

So he’s amplified these white supremacists, these far-right neo Nazi conspiracy theories, and has almost called for civil war in Europe. He does it with a question mark, with emojis, and tries to make it as though it’s an innocent question. He is using his wealth to amplify the far right.

Discussing a debunked post by Musk that claimed the UK Government was considering creating temporary detainment camps on the Falkland Islands for those arrested during riots:

Elon Musk, again, is not an idiot. He’s a smart individual who can easily use a search engine to see whether that headline is true. He didn’t. He chose to amplify that to his 190 million followers. He’s as I say, I think one of the most dangerous men on the planet particularly because he’s so unaccountable.