How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to fuel wave of misinformation

Elon Musk promoted baseless claims about a 2008 Home Office memo advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases, which has been debunked by BBC Verify. The original claim stemmed from a 2018 interview with former prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who now admits he never saw such a memo. The misinformation spread on social media, including Musk’s platform X, has been refuted by the Home Office and Gordon Brown.

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