Elon Musk could be summoned for a grilling by British MPs over X’s role in race riots that have rocked the U.K. over the last week, as well as his own incendiary comments about the violence.

Labour MPs Chi Onwurah and Dawn Butler, who are competing to chair parliament’s science, innovation and technology committee, both told POLITICO they’d press the billionaire X owner and other technology executives to answer questions about the role of social media platforms amid mounting unrest in the U.K.

Musk has spent days beefing with British politicians over the riots, and is locked in a war of words with Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the U.K’s handling of them. Musk on Sunday wrote “civil war is inevitable” in the U.K. and claimed that the response by U.K. police has been “one-sided."

Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter) saw misinformation about the identity of the attacker — wrongly identified as an asylum seeker who had just arrived in the U.K. — spread widely in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The X boss has also come under fire for re-instating the account of high-profile far-right activist Tommy Robinson, who co-founded the English Defense League.

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Chicken shit musk wouldn’t step foot on uk soil if this was a thing.

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Head on a pike. Only resolution with which I’ll ever be satisfied with all issues Musk.

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He would look pretty good decorating Micklegate Bar.

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I find it ridiculous that MPs, gov agencies, etc still have active twitter accounts at this point.

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If anyone has a Twitter account I deeply judge their morality.

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The killer application for Twitter is leaving a forwarding address to mastodon.

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Ha! I did this

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Good! Because he is absolutely complicit in the rise of hatred

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