Any UK politician still on "X" - especially government departments- needs to consider why they are supporting a threat to democracy in the United Kingdom (and beyond), and then obviously leave it.
Musk switched his 'support' from Reform to Ben Habib's Advance UK, then to Rupert Lowe's Restore Party. Musk orchestrated a major fall-out with Farage at Mar-a-Lago when Farage attended a post-inauguration event with his big donor, Christopher Harborne. Musk's public support for Lowe is odd because Restore is not yet a registered political party. Rather it's a company owned exclusively by Lowe. Did you investigate in your report why the world's biggest social media influencer is supporting a political party that doesn't actually exist?
> Signify pulled a 30,000-follower sample, scraped who those people followed, and built a picture of the influencers shaping their world. What emerged stunned me. It was not a British conversation at all. It was American.
But what percentage of those 30,000 followers were Americans who followed one of the 3 UK accounts? Given the 20:1 US to UK X users, A high profile UK account could well get more US followers than UK.
As ever an excellent piece (sad to say I am one of the 46% who avoid the news largely because I feel there is an agenda even in trusted sources such as BBC & C4.)
Any UK politician still on "X" - especially government departments- needs to consider why they are supporting a threat to democracy in the United Kingdom (and beyond), and then obviously leave it.
Genuine question, why haven't you, Liam?
https://x.com/liambyrnemp
Musk switched his 'support' from Reform to Ben Habib's Advance UK, then to Rupert Lowe's Restore Party. Musk orchestrated a major fall-out with Farage at Mar-a-Lago when Farage attended a post-inauguration event with his big donor, Christopher Harborne. Musk's public support for Lowe is odd because Restore is not yet a registered political party. Rather it's a company owned exclusively by Lowe. Did you investigate in your report why the world's biggest social media influencer is supporting a political party that doesn't actually exist?
> Signify pulled a 30,000-follower sample, scraped who those people followed, and built a picture of the influencers shaping their world. What emerged stunned me. It was not a British conversation at all. It was American.
But what percentage of those 30,000 followers were Americans who followed one of the 3 UK accounts? Given the 20:1 US to UK X users, A high profile UK account could well get more US followers than UK.
As ever an excellent piece (sad to say I am one of the 46% who avoid the news largely because I feel there is an agenda even in trusted sources such as BBC & C4.)
Deliberately lying to the public should be a criminal act, when campaigning to be an MP. The Welsh have got this right.