Nigel Farage breaks his silence on his feud with Elon Musk over free speech in the UK

It's all about somebody who calls himself Tommy Robinson. He's a campaigner. He campaigns on grooming gangs and many other things and fine. He wants to be a campaigner.

That's great. But I'm a political leader, and I don't think somebody with a long list of criminal convictions is the kind of person I want to be associated with.

Well, Musk took a rather different view, as indeed many Americans do. Many Americans see Tommy Robinson as an absolute hero for free speech.

I don't think he's wrong in everything he says, and I do question why he's in prison and being kept in solitary confinement.

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I do think that much of what he says is kind of heading towards almost a religious war against the whole of Islam, as opposed to saying there are problems within that religion that we need to deal with.

So I wasn't going to budge on that position. And that's why I got the tweet from Musk. But since then he's retweeted me twice. And who knows, maybe we'll make up.

We have bigger and deeper significance than me, he has been really on the attack against the Government, on the attack against the Prime Minister, on the attack against Jess Phillips. Why is he doing it?

All I can tell you is that our friends in America and around the world have seen court transcripts over the mass rapes that took place in many, many Midlands and northern towns and cities and people just reading this stuff with absolute horror and disbelief, how on earth could this have happened?

I have to say much of the reason we're having this debate is actually down to Charlie Peters, GB News's own reporter, who now says that he believes that there are at least 50 towns and cities in our country in which these mass rapes were occurring.

So that's why Musk has been lashing out and many others have too. The question is, has he gone over the top? Is he trying to interfere in our politics too much?

Is he trying to interfere in the German elections too much by supporting AfD? Or is this just the world we live in, where actually we're so interconnected that we very often influence each other's elections?

The other big shock on social media was Mark Zuckerberg. Now, you might have heard that certain Nick Clegg, poor old Nick, he's worth tens of millions now.

But Nick has lost his big job at Meta, and he's been replaced by Dana White, the UFC guy from America, a fervent Trump supporter. Then we get this statement from Mark Zuckerberg today.

Well, I couldn't help laughing because it was Facebook that censored almost everything in the 2020 election that took place in America.

It was him himself who shoveled hundreds of millions of dollars, $400 million towards the Democrats campaign.

And those of you at home who have often liked posts that I've put up on Facebook over the last few years have found yourselves shut down or suspended. Zuckerberg even went on to say there'll be no longer any third party moderators. They will just have a sort of a system, a sort of correction system, rather like, interestingly, the same system that Musk has on X.

He even said that on Facebook and Instagram we will be able to "debate gender and immigration."

Goodness gracious me. Isn't Trump's victory absolutely enormous? So I'm asking you a question of has Musk got too much power and influence? But actually, equally, is social media now just too powerful? And if it is, what on earth can we do about it?