Britain doesn’t invite Elon Musk to investment forum

The British government has not invited the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, to attend its International Investment Forum. As the BBC reports, this was done in response to his posts about the August anti-immigrant riots in the U.K.

In late July and early August, after the murder of three girls in a dance club in the city of Southport, riots broke out in various cities in the U.K., organized by radical nationalists who were dissatisfied with mass immigration.

Elon Musk commented on these events on X, previously on Twitter, predicting civil war in the U.K. During the August riots, for example, Musk posted (and then deleted) disinformation that the British government was building concentration camps for rioters in the Falkland Islands. His comments were described by members of the U.K. government as “inexcusable” and “quite reprehensible”.

The BBC has reasons to believe that this is why Musk was not among the hundreds of largest investors invited to the summit on Oct. 14.