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👍 Congrats local MP @cajardinemp.bsky.social coming off X

along with #UKParlt's @sarahowen.org.uk & #WomenAndEqualities cttee

🤔 Any other #Edinburgh/#Lothians MP/MSP ?

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X Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row Exclusive: Move follows outcry over use of Grok to digitally remove clothing from images of women and children Picture of committee chair, Sarah Owen MP Guardian article explaining why the Commons Women & Equalities Committee is leaving X... The decision by the women and equalities committee is the first significant move by a Westminster organisation to exit X. It is understood the committee took the decision at a meeting on Wednesday. It will keep its X account, which has about 27,000 followers, in existence but dormant, to ensure no one else can take it over. While the decision concerns only the committee’s account, some individual members, including Owen, have already stopped using X. Another, the Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine, said she was leaving the platform, calling the images generated by Grok “the last straw”. Jardine said she had taken the view that X was a good way to communicate with constituents. “But I cannot in all conscience continue to use a platform which seems unwilling to act against this grossly offensive and abusive online behaviour towards women and girls,” she said. Owen also plans to write to the Cabinet Office and to Ofcom to urge action against X. She said: “I personally came off X in 2024 after the platform and its owner promoted and paid creators of far-right racist and misogynistic material. The committee heard at the end of last year on inquiries about community cohesion that X posts regularly break UK law on hate speech. “In recent days, X and xAI have allowed the creation and sharing of AI deepfakes, non-consensual intimate imagery, and child sexual abuse material – all areas identified as online violence against women and girls by our committee. “We do not view it as appropriate to use such a platform to share our work. I hope that the government, Ofcom and relevant law enforcement agencies work quickly to make X immediately abide by UK law on online safety and non-consensual intimate image abuse, to be held to account for its failures and if it refuses to abide by our laws, it must be appropriately sanctioned.”
January 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM