Could there be a UK clampdown on X?

Sadiq Khan's speech at a Disinformation Summit with Imran Ahmed should worry Brits

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Last week Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, announced that she and her department would be leaving X.

You could say this isn’t that big a deal in itself. But we should worry when multiple politicians express similar sentiment at the same time. Parallel announcements normally mean we are being primed for something eg legislation or an initiative (leaving aside the Labour Party’s ghastly new plan to increase the prominence of state-approved news).


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