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Elon Musk's role in spreading violent anti-migrant narratives on X

In the aftermath of charges being brought against the man responsible for a brutal knife attack in Belfast, unrest quickly escalated into violent disorder. Social media played a significant role in fueling this violence. Among the platforms under scrutiny, Elon Musk's X has once again emerged as a major source of concern for hosting and amplifying content that contributed to the incitement of violence. X is failing to meet its obligations to tackle illegal hate in the UK. Rather than limiting the reach of harmful content, Elon Musk, whose account is the most followed on the platform with more than 240 million followers, amplified anti-migrant narratives promoted by figures including Tommy Robinson and Rupert Lowe, extending their reach to millions of users. The replies to these posts reveal a surge in calls for violence. CCDH's analysis identified 3,930 comments containing calls for violence, including: - 240 calls for violence in replies to relevant posts from Elon Musk - 1,000 calls for violence in replies to Restore party leader Rupert Lowe - 2,690 calls for violence in replies to hate influencer Tommy Robinson

View report Published June 12, 2026

X Turns Jewish Grief into a Target, Again

Abuse and Conspiracies Following the Golders Green Attack

CW: Antisemitism In April 2026, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, London. On X, the responses were vicious. Again. CCDH analysed 130 hateful replies to posts by 10 prominent British Jewish personalities and organisations on X. Some celebrated the attack claiming Jewish people deserved the violence. Others minimised the Holocaust, called for deportation, and spread antisemitic slurs. Every one of those replies appeared to violate X's own rules. This is not the first time X fails to comply with the UK Online Safety Act and stop antisemitism. In 2025, following the Heaton Park synagogue attack in Manchester, where two Jewish people died, we found the same pattern: abuse, threats, and calls for violence left up on the platform.

View report Published May 15, 2026

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X recommends explicit content to 13-year-olds and opens the door to adult messages

CCDH UK’s new report shows that X is failing to enforce its own policy and shield teens from explicit content. We created two UK-based accounts simulating 13-year-olds and found that 8 in 10 searches of common terms — like “sex”, “boobs”, and “porn” — returned at least one post with explicit sexual content. After that, the platform algorithmically recommended explicit material in 30% of the posts in their For You feed. And worse still, a simple change of settings allowed strangers to direct message explicit content to teens. In 2025, the Children’s Commissioner for England found that X “remains the most common source of pornography for children, outstripping even dedicated pornography sites.”

View report Published April 15, 2026

Jess Asato’s Grok case could help deliver AI accountability

Earlier this year, CCDH revealed the extraordinary scale of harm caused by X’s Grok AI image-editing feature. Our analysis estimated that Grok generated approximately 3 million photorealistic sexualized images over an 11-day period, including an estimated 23,000 sexualized images of children. One of the […]

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X commits to new protections against illegal hate in the UK: this is how CCDH is driving change

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X is failing British children: Here’s what needs to be done

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