An American vigilante tears across an unnamed European country, killing dozens of police officers and judges, slaughtering a gang of rapists, and killing a refugee family and a random civilian – all in the name of a crusade against Muslim migrants and 'woke' government officials. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.
Citizen Vigilante, a film from German director Uwe Boll and starring actor Armie Hammer, is violent – and very schlocky – stuff. Initially denied a rating by Germany's film regulator, it would likely have garnered very little attention, had it not caught the eye of the world's richest person.
Elon Musk made the film free to view via his social media platform X for 48 hours in late June 2026, and the subsequent attention briefly pushed the movie into the top of the charts of several streaming providers including Apple and Amazon. At one point he reposted a message about the film that described vigilante murder as the 'moderate response' to violent crimes committed by immigrants.
It's just one of many recent examples of the tech titan's increasing interest in extreme ideas and activists, and in particular his support of political parties and politicians on the right in Europe. Musk left the Trump administration more than a year ago and his Doge project, which aimed to slash the size of the US federal government, has since been wound down. But he has recently sought to conquer other political territory.
'This is a crusade,' says Georgios Samaras, an assistant professor of public policy at King's College London who studies the European and US far right. 'Musk uses the power he has to amplify the ideas that he thinks should dominate society. He knows he has the money and he knows he has the influence.'
Much of that influence comes via X, formerly Twitter, the social media platform that Musk bought outright in 2022. Since stripping away many of the old Twitter's content moderation rules - derided as censorship by Musk and others - the network has become a haven for far-right beliefs and conspiracy theories. Although it's difficult to glean a cohesive worldview from social media fragments - Musk did not respond to requests for comment for this story - his output has demonstrated a growing obsession with race and white people in particular. He has posted and reposted a slew of messages - often from white nationalist and far-right activists - portraying white people as under threat, including messages like 'Whites are a rapidly dying minority' and 'If White men become a minority, we will be slaughtered'.
He has endorsed the leader of France's hard-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen. 'She is France's last hope,' he wrote. Musk also recently reposted a video from the far-right activist Tommy Robinson that suggested police are going easy on criminals if they have brown skin, with the comment 'literally true'. He's also boosted right-wing politicians and parties in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and the UK.
Although at one point he toyed with donating huge sums of money to Reform UK, he since broke with Nigel Farage over Farage's shunning of Robinson, and more recently has boosted the profile of Rupert Lowe's breakaway party Restore Britain – a Reform rival that seeks to take an even tougher line on immigration. In June, after a Sudanese man was accused of a brutal stabbing in Northern Ireland, Musk shared a list of street protest locations posted by Robinson, adding: 'Only by protesting REPEATEDY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!' In other posts he claimed that former Prime Minister Keir Starmer 'hates white people' and shared an image of the stabbing suspect with the comment 'millions must go'.
Mobs rioted on the streets of Belfast, where the stabbing happened. Police highlighted the role of social media in co-ordinating the disorder. The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a research and advocacy group that has been the target of legal action by Musk in the past, tallied 4,000 calls for violence on X written as responses underneath posts by Musk, Lowe and Robinson. When contacted for comment, Lowe described the CCDH report as 'embarrassing guff' and called the BBC a 'disgrace'.
Despite being in charge of several enormous companies, Musk regularly wades into ostensibly local disputes, not just in Belfast but across Europe, apparently gleaning much of his knowledge from people he follows on X. One of those talking points is his embrace of the term 'remigration'. Anti-immigration advocates use it to refer to mass deportations, even of legal migrants. In its extreme form, it means the removal through force or heavy persuasion of all non-whites or foreigners, even if they were born in or and have deep roots in their home countries.