He also rejected suggestions that he supports “far-right” views.

Minton Beddoes said both the data and his own experience of living in the UK told a different story to the image portrayed by the billionaire in his X posts.

“You come to see my country where I live all the time,” she said when Musk offered to take her on a tour of the country.

When asked when he had last visited the UK, Musk said “a few years ago”.

The billionaire was also asked if he had shared a film about X supposedly banned in Germany for its violence and anti-immigrant message., external.

“My partner is…she’s half Indian and I have four kids with her,” Musk said of his partner Shivon Zillis, an executive at his brain technology company Neuralink.

“One of them is named after a famous Indian physicist, so I would say I’m not racist.”

Musk also said there were “senior executives of all races” at his companies, adding: “I don’t think there’s any racism there.”

But when asked if he was “anti-Muslim”, he was less defiant.

“If people come to a country with antithetical opinions, I am against it,” he said.

“I am against rape and murder, I am against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we have come to accept in the West,” he continued, criticizing the media for not understanding or reflecting him.