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Marianne Spring's Panorama program on 6 March dealt with Elon Musk's "twitterstorm".

The program revealed how the team who tried to deal with child protection on Twitter was slashed from 20 to 6. The consequences for protecting children from predatory paedophiles and for content which triggers suicide are obvious. Clearly Elon Musk was not interested in these issues because he considered the free speech of paedophiles was more important.

The User Safety Committee which consisted of Twitter users recorded a massive increase in white supremacists posting on Twitter unchecked. Trump wasn't the only obnoxious individual to be welcomed back to Twitter with open arms.

The most harrowing part of the programme was the accounts of rape victims who sought support on Twitter but were met with a torrent of abuse.

People like Musk are not the best guardians of "freedom of speech". If Labour were less pusilanimous they would be fighting against this malign influence. It looks as though trade unionists and Socialists will have to do the job for them.