Honestly the entire UK government and public organisations generally in the UK should remove themselves from Twitter/X. Musk has shown clear disregard for the UK and it’s laws, and has personally interfered in UK politics and issues.
I don’t think UK public organisations should be giving any legitimacy to X by making it a useful resource containing their information. They should instead pivot to mastodon - which would help grow public service social media as a concept - and stay with the other big social media platforms.
But there needs to be better regulation of social media anyway, and if companies like X refuse to be regulated then ban them. We’re too far into the social media hell-scape now to ignore the dangers of unchallenged disinformation and lies on platforms that have no incentive or interest to stop it. We just have to look at the USA itself to realise that is not where we want to end up.
Honestly the entire UK government and public organisations generally in the UK should remove themselves from Twitter/X. Musk has shown clear disregard for the UK and it’s laws, and has personally interfered in UK politics and issues.
I don’t think UK public organisations should be giving any legitimacy to X by making it a useful resource containing their information. They should instead pivot to mastodon - which would help grow public service social media as a concept - and stay with the other big social media platforms.
But there needs to be better regulation of social media anyway, and if companies like X refuse to be regulated then ban them. We’re too far into the social media hell-scape now to ignore the dangers of unchallenged disinformation and lies on platforms that have no incentive or interest to stop it. We just have to look at the USA itself to realise that is not where we want to end up.
Honestly every self-respecting government and every reputable organisation should.
They also need to stop handing the UK and its people over to Palantir.