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    Labour’s first ‘Twitter tsar’ says ministers should get off ‘cesspit’ X immediately

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    1. BobMonkhaus on

      Not even Corbyn, Sultana or Polanski have abandoned x yet. The lure of appealing to its user base is too much.

    2. InsecureInscapist on

      A very based opinion that should immediately be followed through with.

      Moving large amounts of government communication to these social media platforms was a dire mistake and has given the foreign tech billionaires who own them vast amounts of influence within our country.

      They can and must be curtailed, before it is too late.

    3. ChancePhoto2610 on

      Have some balls Starmer and do it.

      They’ll find something else to cry about. Even if you came out and supported their freedom to make AI porn, they’ll still hate you.

    6. SidneySmut on

      If Labour’s authoritarian wing keep pushing Trump and Musk’s buttons, there’s going to problems.

    7. JosephStalinho on

      I’ve said it before I’ll say it again

      Make a UK gov ran social media. People WILL sign up and you can have all businesss on it and government announcements

    9. KingDaviies on

      This is obviously a great idea, but you can understand why ministers wouldn’t want to do it.

      It basically means that anyone they’re running against in an election can use Twitter to reach their constituents, while the ministers cannot. It would be easy to enforce this against ministers but I can’t imagine how they’d enforce this against people running to be one.

    10. Active_Remove1617 on

      I see various NHS departments are on Twitter and using Facebook as well. I can understand some public announcement awareness stuff being beneficial. But is Twitter really necessary?

    11. shrunkenshrubbery on

      Using a platform that is so openly biassed is a poor decision for any public official.

    14. Academic-Big2346 on

      It’s a solid point about the outsized influence these platforms now have. The government shouldn’t be giving a single billionaire that much leverage over public discourse. Getting official communication off that site is a necessary first step to reclaiming some control.

    15. ID3293 on

      Remember when this place was up in arms over a Reform council refusing to speak to a local newspaper? That was apparently a terrible attack on democracy, but the prospect of the Labour government running and hiding from a hostile media environment is apparently fantastic.

    16. DeezWuts on

      Twitter was great for customee service accounts, pretty much went down the pan when musk took over an got worse ever since.

    17. philiconyt118 on

      We all know Keir cuntface will do nothing but Twitter and Facebook should be discontinued. It worked for Myspace.

    19. initiali5ed on

      It is arguable that Social Media proliferation since the late 2000s has been instrumental in external manipulation of the populations of many countries, leading to several major political upheavals. The 2010 Coalition, The Arab Spring, Obama, Trump, Brexit, Momentum.

      Like any technology, it is open to abuse by those in power despite its apparent function as a democratising tool and because of its polarising properties.

      In short social media is at the same time the most powerful propaganda tool ever created and the best way to get a grassroots movement off the ground depending on whether platform control is distributed or centralised.

    20. Narrow_Stay_9868 on

      The two main groups of people I’ve noticed that stuck around since Musk took over are journalists and MPs and it’s not a coincidence. When MPs say they want to communicate with their constitutents, that constituency is really Westminster journalists.

    21. Durzel on

      The counter argument to this is often that “this is where the people are”, but given the slant on there I’d suggest left wing parties aren’t going to win over anyone trying to engage with the bullshit.

      It seems bizarre to persist tweeting into the void on there when the guy that runs it is such a raging fascist. How would you even know your messages aren’t getting suppressed? Instead we’re in a bizarro world where the site owner posts a doctored photo of the PM in a bikini, and the PM feels obliged to announce a crackdown of the platform, on the platform.

      Just ditch it. Money and engagement is the only thing that Musk cares about, so if people left in serious numbers then it would cease to be seen as necessary to be on there. Win-win.

    22. Electronic_Line7020 on

      I couldn’t agree more. No part of Government should be on there, no formal announcements of any kind should be placed there – it is a cesspit and *legitimising* it is definitely part of the problem. I’d also suggest one shouldn’t advertise on it unless one has an absolutely bulletproof brand – and then why would you want to anyway? Get off X – get off it!

    23. maikroplastik on

      Everyone should have moved off twitter after the nazi-salute. If you’re still there, that’s a choice and if you’re a government body it’s not one that serves the interests of the country.

    24. roamingandy on

      Worth pointing out that Meta (Facebook and Instagram) has also been used heavily to influence our democracy via disinformation AND have just hired a former Trump staffer with a glowing endorsement from Trump.

      That sounds an awful lot to me like a back-door state take over of Meta, which is going to become more aggressively far-right/fascist to make sure this X ban doesn’t harm Farage’s election for their global take-over. Farage who will instantly reverse the X and Grok ban.

    27. Crowdfunder101 on

      We really need a law requiring official statements to be made via a publically accessible, free, website before being shared on social media.

      Why should I have to sign up to ‘X’ just to know what’s going on with my country! Same with BBC constantly using it as a source.

    28. InfiniteTallgeese on

      I stopped using Twitter in about 2018 and my mood and outlook on life increased *significantly*. I would recommend anyone still using it to delete your account and not look back.

    29. zer0c00l81 on

      I never used twitter but joined X, its sooo much fun now its all right wing whoppers. Pure trolls heaven