Elon Musk will for sure rant and rave, but he can be ignored: Richard Hermer has become the first UK cabinet minister to order his department — the Attorney General's Office — to leave X. The Observer reports:
Hermer’s decision, communicated to staff via a directive last week, comes off after a surge in mis- and disinformation in relation to the murder of Henry Nowak and the brutal knife attack in Belfast. The attorney general is said to be increasingly concerned about how X in particular is being used by bad actors to attempt to divide communities in the UK. In both cases, the platform was used by far-right activists including Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) to coordinate protests, which in some cases led to riots.
High-profile politicians including Robert Jenrick shared doctored images from bodycam footage in the Nowak case, while Grok wrongly identified two former police officers as being among those attending the scene, resulting in details about the individuals being widely shared online.
First government department quits X over racism and viole... · observer.co.ukConcern about the spread of misinformation from right-wing figures prompts Richard Hermer to pull Attorney General’s Office off platform