Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concerns over far-right content fuelling violence and division
The 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.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/02/lisa-nandy-culture-social-media-x-abuse-misinformation
Author : Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
Publish date : 2026-07-02 17:43:00
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