How Elon Musk’s Intense Interest In A UK Grooming Gang Scandal Is Being Driven By Disruptive Right-Wing Network GB News

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Elon Musk has been tweeting incessantly for days about a grooming gang scandal that is setting the political weather in Britain, but the origins of how it came onto the radar of the world’s richest man can be traced back a decade.

Charlie Peters, a student about to embark on a philosophy masters at The University of Edinburgh, took the time to leaf through a 159-page report on child exploitation in Rotherham, a town in the north of England.

He recalls being astounded by Professor Alexis Jay’s 2014 inquiry, which concluded that at least 1,400 children had been raped, trafficked, and assaulted in the Yorkshire community, predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage. “I put myself in the shoes of those I was reading about and thought, what would I do in that situation?

I realized I wouldn’t be able to do anything. And I felt like that sense of hopelessness was very crushing,” Peters tells Deadline. “There’s never been a bigger national scandal in my lifetime.” The thunderbolt moment lit a fire in Peters, who channeled his anger over Jay’s findings into a career in journalism.