The wife of a Conservative councillor who was convicted for stirring up racial hatred on social media did not violate X’s rules with the post.
Lucy Connolly, a childminder from Northampton, has pleaded guilty to publishing a social media post intending to stir up racial hatred after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight.
A few days after her post, X rejected a complaint from a user who flagged the message to it.
The social media giant did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The 41-year-old, whose husband Raymond Connolly is a West Northamptonshire councillor, had posted on 29 July calling for hotels housing migrants to be set on fire and for “mass deportation now”.
“If that makes me racist, so be it,” she added.
It came as disorder broke out at a number of locations across the country, with hotels containing asylum seekers attacked.
An X user, who did not want to be identified, described how they had alerted the platform to the now deleted post but had been rebuffed in an automated response.
They said: “I’m shocked and appalled. If they can ignore this clear-cut breach of their alleged rules of conduct and go against UK law, there is clearly a grave problem with their supposed moderation process.”
