‘Cancel Netflix’: Elon Musk leads rightwing backlash over trans character in canceled series

Resurfaced clip from Dead End: Paranormal Park led Musk to encourage his followers to cancel their subscriptions

Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire and self-proclaimed free speech absolutist", has in recent days trained his attention on getting people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company's woke bias" and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters.

Musk, the richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $500bn, has repeatedly encouraged his 227 million followers on X, the platform he controls, to cancel their Netflix subscriptions. In the past three days alone, he has posted or reposted calls to cancel Netflix for its content at least 26 times.