"Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after admitting contempt of court by repeating false claims against a Syrian refugee." (Oct 2023)

'Free speech' rules in the UK rely on the fact that the speaker takes responsibility for the words they use.

He has been found to make libelous claims, and he repeated those claims. He made his own bed ...

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His conviction has nothing to do with covering up child sexual abuses. He is in prison for repeatedly telling lies and disregarding court decisions.

He is serving an 18-month jail sentence for contempt of court, a charge stemming from a libelous video in which he falsely claimed a Syrian refugee teenager was a violent thug.

Musk hasn't made anything public; he is just regurgitating what he read somewhere else.

Musk is not just content with meddling with US politics. Musk also has a history of backing the far-right in Europe: AfD party in Germany, Nigel Farage of the UK’s Reform party, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson.