Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy stopped X against ‘misinformation’

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced that she and her department will be leaving Elon Musk’s X platform.

Explaining her decision with what it seems Her last post was on X, External“It is not healthy for our democracy or our society and I don’t want to support it,” Nandy said.

“A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favors insults and misinformation over meaningful debate,” she wrote.

The Department for Culture is the second government department to stop using X, after the Attorney-General’s Office, and several MPs quit the platform earlier this year because the AI ​​tool was being used to create sexual images.

Nandi said she will continue to use Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Attorney-General Lord Hermer last month defended his office’s decision to ban postings on X, telling MPs it “continues to be racist and bigoted” and that his department “can do better”.

Lord Hermer told the justice committee in June: “I can understand why other departments feel they need to be on the ground with people, but the Attorney-General’s office is not the place to be.”

“What I can do is engage with people in serious debate, detailed debate, respectful debate, without being on a platform that constantly descends into racism and hate.”

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has accused Mook of using the platform to “bring down division” in the UK over the killing of student Henry Nowak last month.

There were violent protests in Southampton after body camera footage was released showing 18-year-old Nowak being handcuffed by police as he lay dying. The killer, Vikrum Digwa, said he was a victim of racist violence.

The footage of Novak’s final moments has sparked a wave of political backlash in the UK, with X’s boss Musk criticizing the police’s treatment of the teenager.

A number of MPs, including Liberal Democrats Leila Moran and Vicky Slade and Labour’s Darren Puffy, walked out after reports that Grok’s AI tool was being used to create sexual images, including of children.

X previously said: “Anyone who uses Grok or encourages illegal content will face the same consequences as those who upload illegal content.”