Elon Musk's online attacks on former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown over grooming gangs draw on a baseless claim about a Home Office memo supposedly issued 17 years ago, research by BBC Verify has established.
A wave of social media posts – including some amplified by Mr Musk – allege that a 2008 Home Office document advised police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had "made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour".
But BBC Verify has carried […]
How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to fuel wave of misinformation – BBC
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