# The Global Story: Citizen Vigilante and Elon Musk’s war on ‘woke’ films Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-news-podcast-204504/the-global-story-citizen-vigilante-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-woke-films Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-news-podcast-204504/the-global-story-citizen-vigilante-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-woke-films.md Podcast: [Global News Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-news-podcast-204504) Published: 2026-07-12T19:00:00+00:00 Episode link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ny2tz2 Audio file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0ny2t80.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/global-news-podcast-204504/episodes/the-global-story-citizen-vigilante-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-woke-films Duration seconds: 1652 ## Resource Citizen Vigilante is a low-budget action thriller starring actor Armie Hammer as a vigilante who hunts down migrant criminals in Europe. The movie faced a muted reception - until Elon Musk posted it to his hundreds of millions of followers on X.com. We speak to journalist Mike Wendling to understand why this film has become a lightning rod for political and cultural debate, and what its sudden rise reveals about the far-reaching influence of the world’s richest man. The Global Story brings clarity to politics, business and foreign policy in a time of connection and disruption. For more episodes, just search 'The Global Story' wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/global-news-podcast-204504/episodes/the-global-story-citizen-vigilante-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-woke-films/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-news-podcast-204504/the-global-story-citizen-vigilante-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-woke-films.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.