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An investigation is being urged into MP James McMurdock over his “use of social media to apparently facilitate racial abuse” against Sky News political correspondent Mhari Aurora.
Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty has written to the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Daniel Greenberg, over the matter.
Mr McMurdock was previously a Reform UK MP, but suspended himself from Nigel Farage’s party after allegations emerged over COVID loans he claimed. There was controversy over his selection as a Reform candidate after it emerged he was jailed in 2006 for assaulting his then-girlfriend.
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In his letter shared on social media, Mr Obese-Jecty outlined how Mr McMurdock posted the single letter “N” under an X post that was critical of Aurora.
Mr Obese-Jecty explains the concept of an “N-Tower”, saying it “is a means of using a racial slur against an individual on an online platform whilst circumventing moderation that would remove racially abusive content”.
“The practice involves spelling out a racial slur vertically with each individual posting a single letter of the word in order to spell it vertically.”
In this case, the slur was the n-word, with the letters appearing in subsequent posts under Mr McMurdock’s first on X over roughly 30 minutes.
Mr McMurdock later appears to have deleted his post, Mr Obese-Jecty says.
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Mr McMurdock appeared to deny he made the post, sharing a screenshot of X’s AI assistant Grok claiming he never posted the letter N, based on a screenshot of the N-Tower. Grok is a large language model, which is…
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