A growing number of MPs are weighing up whether to leave social media website X, reports Politics Home, citing concerns over the platform’s role in spreading hate and disinformation.
This trend reflects a broader movement among politicians distancing themselves from X due to its increasingly toxic environment.
Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party, who joined Bluesky this week, said that while she was “certainly not about to leave [X] tomorrow”, Greens were “actively looking” at which platforms would be best to put resources into.
“It’s probably not good for democracy if everyone to the left of a certain line of the left-right spectrum is on one platform and everybody else is on another. That feels like the kind of political polarisation that we’re seeing in the US, and I don’t think we want to emulate that here.”