Exclusive: MPs leaving platform or scaling back use over its ‘deterioration’ under Elon Musk’s ownership
Over the weekend, newly elected MPs took to WhatsApp groups to raise growing concerns about the role X played in the spread of misinformation amid theTwo Labour MPs are known to have told colleagues they were leaving the platform. One of them, Noah Law, has disabled his account.
“I’ve noticed in recent weeks some people moving away from X because of their experiences there, so I’ve expanded where I’m posting to include some X alternatives – Threads and BlueSky,” he said. “I used to love it. I was on it since 2009,” Platt said. “That deterioration of it has just happened quite quickly over the past few years and even more so now.” She cited “the misinformation and disinformation that you see on there, without it being challenged, and you know that it’s not going to be removed”.
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