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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.

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

Took 'em long enough. Everybody should've ditched Twitter like a year ago.

[-] dlatch@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Stopped using it the moment it became "X". Realized a few weeks ago that I still had an account and that I hadn't missed it once. Deleted the account and now happily live in a Twitter free bubble.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

That place was toxic before musk got a hold of it. I can't imagine how bad it is now.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

I ditched it entirely the day they admitted that killing third party apps was a feature not a bug.

I used Tweetbot for ten years, so the idea of having to raw dog a fascist’s plaything didn’t appeal to me.

[-] chrislowles@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Whenever I reminisce about Twitter I gotta remind myself that I'm probably gonna run into 90% of what's going on there on IG anyway, two thirds of my explore page is just screenshots of tweets lol

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