UK culture minister quits X over ‘abuse and misinformation’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/2/uk-culture-minister-quits-x-over-abuse-and-misinformation
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/2/uk-culture-minister-quits-x-over-abuse-and-misinformation
24 Comments
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 28 pts · 49d
It's like with planting trees. The best time was to plant some 50 years ago, the second best time is now. But it is too late in many ways.
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 49d
Surely the second best time was 49 years ago
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 1 pts · 49d
Don't call me Shirley.
Hund@feddit.nu · 13 pts · 49d
In what universe are these suck services any better than Twitter? She has accomplished nothing by moving away from Twitter while staying at these suck services.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website · 16 pts · 49d
Those other services are not great but they are at the very least not actively promoting AI-generated child abuse imagery. It's an incredibly low bar, but they do pass it.
echodot@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 49d
Pretty sure Facebook actually does.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 49d
But they dont generate it themselves, making twitter uniquely bad
Hund@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 49d
Meta is running ads that promotes child sexual abuse material with actual kids is as low as it gets. It's far worse than any AI slop.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 49d
facebook has admin controls for the user, so they can delete any dissenting opinion. thats why alot of people who have controversies flee to facebook, so they can delete block all criticism
dektep@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 49d
took her long enough
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 49d
Who cares? Is anyone still on X other than bots, nazis, and a few misguided journalists?
Hasn't been relevant since 2019
Humanius@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 49d
A bunch of politicians and government institutions for some reason..
Edit: That is also why the journalists are there
58008@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 49d
That any government or public figure would subject the public to X's cesspool in order to contact or keep up with them is as fucked up as the platform itself. It'd be less fucked up to paste government news bulletins onto the walls of a crackhouse.
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 49d
Years too late, mate. Get onto Bluesky!
blah3166@piefed.social · 20 pts · 49d
For anyone who cares, Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and can be easily censored.
Mastodon cannot be censored in the same way, thus no long-term enshittification. If you're going to switch away from Twitter, give Mastodon a try. It uses the same tech/protocol as Lemmy, Piefed, Loops, Pixelfed, m/kbin, etc.
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 49d
I've never really been that interested in Twitter so I have kind of ignored Mastodon, is it just open source Twitter or is there any meaningful improvements?
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 49d
The differences are mostly around consent. Eg. You cant quotetweet without the author setting a flag to allow it
blah3166@piefed.social · 1 pts · 49d
it's basically twitter.
I will say, the cool thing about it is the interoperability between ActivityPub platforms. For example, from my mastodon account, since I'm subscribed to some hashtags I'm interested in, I occasionally see posts from Lemmy/Piefed (reddit-like), Pixelfed (Instagram-like), Loops (Tiktok-like), etc. I can comment and like without having to create accounts on the other platforms. It's definitely more aligned with what the open web should look like, although could use some UX and discoverability improvements, as I'm not entirely sure how some stuff works, but it's been interesting to try it out.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 49d
Get in now before the enshittification.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 48d
Just no, move to Mastodon. Bluesky is the red headed step child of X
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 48d
It would be nice if they would regulate it to reduce the abuse and misinformation rather than claiming to make it "safe" by giving everyone's personal details to the abuse factory via OSA and "childrens" (anonymous people's) social media ban?
Don't we have Ofcom who are supposed to protect the public from harmful communications?
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d
Took him long enough to notice this.
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 47d
But others still use it…… They should just block it or sue it hard.
echodot@feddit.uk · -3 pts · 49d
Oh that's great, a meaningless gesture from someone in a job that she probably won't even have in a couple of weeks.