U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy Quits Elon Musk’s X Over ‘Abuse and Misinformation’

Lisa Nandy, the U.K.’s Culture Secretary, said Thursday that she is leaving X, and that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will follow suit.

In what could be her final post on the platform, Nandy wrote: “I’ve decided to leave this platform and my department will too. A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favors abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate. It isn’t healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it.”

Nandy said she will remain active on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Variety has reached out to X for comment.

The move makes Nandy one of the most senior members of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government to depart the platform. She joins the Attorney General’s Office, which pulled out of X last month, becoming the first U.K. government department to do so; the DCMS is now the second. The attorney general told MPs the platform “constantly descends to racism and misogyny.”