
Elon Musk’s secret weapon
BBC News is the key to the X owner’s fixation with British politics.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Twitter (now X) is an online social media and social networking service. Since July 2022 it is officially known as X after ownership changed from the company Twitter, Inc to X Corp. Users of the service can post (known as tweeting), repost (retweeting), quote posts (quote tweeting), like and comment on posts. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis on Twitter/X here.
BBC News is the key to the X owner’s fixation with British politics.
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