12 August 2024 16:38 BST | Last update: ago Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is embroiled in controversy after posting a meme alleged to be Islamophobic. On Saturday, Musk posted the meme on X, formerly known as Twitter until Musk's acquisition of the social media platform. In it, four bearded and Muslim-appearing men stand watching over a white British police officer, a riff on the popular meme depicting four Black men standing over adult film star Piper Perri while she sits on a couch. “This meme could get you 3 years in prison in the UK (actually),” Musk added in a reply to his post, which received 888,000 likes and 94.4m views by time of publication. Since his acquisition of Twitter, Musk has styled himself as a vanguard of free speech who often tests censorship laws in a number of countries by sharing content that some perceive to be inflammatory. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters At the same time, he is accused of throttling criticism of Israel and the Zionist movement after a scandal in which he appeared to agree with the antisemitic accusation that Jews are weakening the West by encouraging mass immigration. Since advertisers threatened to boycott his platform over the post, Musk went on what many on X criticised as an "apology tour"; first to Israel to meet survivors of the Hamas assault on 7 October and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million Jews were killed by the Nazis. In recent weeks, Musk has attacked his online rivals, including former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, who he accused of being racist and a “scumbag”. The South African-born tycoon has also shared fake news about the UK riots and has joked about invading Britain. Yousaf branded Musk “one of the most dangerous men on the planet” for his “amplification” of disinformation after the riots. Last Thursday, Musk hit back, calling Yousaf, the son of Pakistani migrants to Scotland, “super, super racist” and claiming he “loathes white people”. “I dare that scumbag to sue me,” Musk said on Sunday in response to reports that Yousuf was considering legal action against him. Last Friday, London’s Metropolitan police commissioner, Mark Rowley, threatened to extradite and imprison people overseas, including US citizens, over online posts - and warned that “the likes of Elon Musk” are potential investigation targets. Musk is ‘accountable to no one’ Musk, whose daughter recently alleged that he told her when she was six years old that Arabic is the “language of the enemy”, has made a number of interventions on the topic of the far-right anti-Muslim riots that raged across Britain in early August. Having declared that civil war in Britain was “inevitable” during the riots, which were partially triggered by misinformation spread on X, Musk has since issued multiple apparently humourous posts suggesting the US should invade the UK. Does seem like the people are being oppressed