Record number of UK police forces are failing and need intensive help
GuardianDec 23, 2022
Report: UK Police Reducing Content on X
Above: Policing the farmers protesting in Westminster against a rise in inheritance tax on Nov. 19, 2024, in London, United Kingdom. Image copyright: Andrew Aitchison/Contributor/In pictures via Getty Images
The Facts
A new study conducted by Reuters over three months up to Nov. 13 shows that several UK police forces are reducing their content on social media platform X compared to a year prior.
Reuters claims that, out of 44 territorial police forces and the British Transport Police, eight had "noticeably fewer posts," including a 95% reduction by West Midlands Police and an approximately 75% decrease by Lancashire Police.
The Spin
Left narrative
With Bluesky on the march, and X's increasingly hate-filled content only encouraged by Trump's election victory, we're likely at the beginning of a dramatic shift in the social media landscape. Developed by former Twitter co-founder Jack Dempsey, Bluesky is a nostalgic return to the days when online discourse and differences of opinion were not dominated by algorithm-enhanced disinformation, which helped catalyze the violence witnessed this summer.
Right narrative
The UK government cares more about suppressing free speech than it does tackling real crime and protecting the public. Starmer's war against Musk is nothing more than an ideological fantasy undermining the very principles of liberty that Britain has championed throughout history. Woke culture and the socialist crusade against X and individual freedoms will, despite the best efforts of the establishment, fail in the UK just like it did at the ballot box in the US.