The Facts
A Reuters study undertaken over three months up to Nov. 13 shows that several UK police forces are using reducing their content on social media platform X in comparison to 2023.
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
With Bluesky on the march, and X's increasingly hate-fulled and intolerant content only encouraged by Trump's election victory, we may well be watching 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 difference of opinion was not dominated by algorithm-enhanced disinformation which helped catalyze the violence witnessed this summer in the UK. It is rightly time to leave the chaos of X in the past.
The UK government and its police forces care more about suppressing free speech than they do tackling real crime or ensuring the safety and prosperity of its public. Starmer's war against Musk is nothing more than an ideological fantasy that undermines the very principles of liberty that Britain has championed throughout its 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 America on Nov. 5.
