Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent

Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Independent TV

Showing now | News

Video Player Placeholder
Liberal Democrat Leader demands criminal action against Musk for ‘X Crimes’

00:40

Liberal Democrat Leader demands criminal action against Musk for ‘X Crimes’

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called for tech billionaire Elon Musk to be prosecuted under the online safety act.

Davey called Musk a criminal for allowing his platform to show adverts pushing self harm and “even selling videos showing paedophile acts” before saying he should be held to account for them.

Speaking at the Liberal Democrat conference, Sir Ed was firm in his views saying that if Mr Musk were to come to the UK, he should be arrested.

Up next

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in