Argentina’s Milei Has a Message for Britain’s Labour Leadership, Which Appears To Be Cooling on Free Speech

A bid to clamp down on social media misinformation is raising hackles in some unlikely quarters.

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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer at London, July 5, 2024. AP/Kin Cheung

Don’t cry for him, Sir Keir. Argentina’s iconoclastic president, Javier Milei, has a pequeño memo for Downing Street, and it is not about long standing Argentine claims to the Falkland Islands. It has to do with the British government’s incipient crackdown on social media expression, some of which is increasingly being branded with insufficient consideration as “extremist.” Mr. Milei, never shy about speaking his mind, is miffed. 

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