Exclusive: MPs leaving platform or scaling back use over its ‘deterioration’ under Elon Musk’s ownership

Labour MPs have begun quitting X in alarm over the platform, with one saying Elon Musk had turned it into “a megaphone for foreign adversaries and far-right fringe groups”.

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 the far-right-led riots in parts of England and Northern Ireland.

Two Labour MPs are known to have told colleagues they were leaving the platform. One of them, Noah Law, has disabled his account. Other MPs who still use X have begun examining alternatives, including Threads, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and the open-source platform Bluesky.

In an article for the Guardian on Monday, a former Twitter executive, Bruce Daisley, said Musk should face personal sanctions and even an arrest warrant if he continues to stir up public disorder online.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    763·
    1 month ago

    Of course, none of them are going to the fediverse, because social media that’s not owned by a corporate entity and ready for algorithmic enshittification is not a thing for normal people.

      • shininghero@pawb.socialEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        Would be interesting, but Lemmy and Mastodon would both need some work to tick some security and compliance checkboxes.

        On the plus side, we could get proper 2FA support (i.e. Yubikeys or TOTP tokens) as a result. I’d love to get some more use out of that old yubikey.

    • psvrh@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      I really wish Bluesky could federate with other Mastodon servers.

      Also, fuck Threads.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      No offense but you guys are on almost no-one’s radar. I only found out about the fediverse by googling reddit alternatives last year, and I WORK in IT.

      • digdilem@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

        Working in IT doesn’t mean you know everything about what’s on the internet.

        (Source: I also work in IT. A toddler with a tablet knows more about a lot of things online than I do)

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 month ago

          Another shitstain lemmy.ml user. I will literally donate a $1k to lemmy.world if we defederate these weaksauce trolls. Blocking them one at a time is so fuckdamn annoying.