Doom scrolling: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
Nov 06, 2025•18 min
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Episode description
Have you been feeling a bit more right wing recently?
If you're an avid user of X then it appears Elon Musk is trying to make that the case.
For the first time, a Sky News investigation has uncovered how the social media platform's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content.
Niall is joined by Sky News data and forensics journalists Tom Cheshire and Kaitlin Tosh.
Producer: Tom Gillespie
Editor: Mike Bovill
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