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Far-right British MP outperforms most world leaders on X

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Curated: 13/11/2026 from www.ft.com/content/fe954496-6a1b-4644-9a7d-d99c53276bfd?syn-25a6b1a6=1

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"Far-right British politician Rupert Lowe enjoys much greater visibility on X than world leaders including Andy Burnham, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, underlining the power of the social network’s owner Elon Musk to amplify extreme voices... Some 43 per cent of Lowe’s 1.7bn views on X in the first 10 months of the year were from posts that were reposted or commented on by Musk... [these] had almost 100 times the number of views of those where the X owner did not interact"

This boost "was more valuable than a multimillion-pound donation. Rupert Lowe is only relevant in British politics today because of Elon Musk... Restore has pledged to deport “millions” of people ... ban the burka ... a referendum on the death penalty...

Lowe has declared more than £113,000 in earnings from X since the 2024 election."

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