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Safeguarding curate Jess Phillips has told BBC's Newsnight that "disinformation" dispersed by Elon Musk was "endangering" her but that it was "nothing" compared to the experiences of victims of abuse.
The tech billionaire and advisor to US President-elect Donald Trump labelled Phillips a "rape genocide apologist" and said she should beryllium jailed.
Asked if the menace to her ain information had gone up since his societal media posts and whether protections were successful spot for her safety, Phillips replied "yes".
She said the acquisition had been "very, very, precise tiring" but that she was "resigned to the batch successful beingness that you get arsenic a pistillate who fights unit against women and girls".
She added: "I'm nary alien to radical who don't cognize what they're talking astir trying to soundlessness women similar me."
Musk's involution came successful effect to Phillips rejecting a petition for the authorities to pb a nationalist enquiry into kid intersexual exploitation successful Oldham - which sparked calls from the Conservatives and Reform UK for a nationalist enquiry into grooming gangs.
Her determination was taken successful October but archetypal reported by GB News astatine the commencement of the twelvemonth and past picked up by Musk connected his societal media level X.
Phillips defended the government's determination not to clasp a nationalist inquiry, arguing that section inquiries, specified arsenic 1 held successful Telford, were much effectual astatine starring to change.
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