UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy announces that the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport will stop using Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Nandy says the platform increasingly “favours abuse and misinformation” rather than meaningful debate, and she links these issues to concerns about far-right content being amplified. In her statement, Nandy characterizes the platform’s activity as spreading “abuse and misinformation.” She also raises broader worries that the way X prioritizes certain content contributes to violence and social division.
The reports agree that this is a decision to remove or end the department’s use of the platform, following growing public and political scrutiny of X’s content moderation and ranking systems. Both accounts describe Nandy’s announcement as scathing and as grounded in the department’s assessment of the platform’s current behaviour and its impact on online discourse.
Together, the sources present the same core points: Nandy makes a formal announcement, cites abuse and misinformation, and states the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will no longer use X.
