Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:43:30 GMT

Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concerns over far-right content fuelling violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”, Lisa Nandy has announced.The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform over increasing concerns about the way it highlights and prioritises often inaccurate far-right and racist content and is used to incite violence and division. Continue reading...

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