In a significant shift for British digital diplomacy, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy announced last week her decision to pull both herself and her government department off X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Her departure is more than just a routine administrative update; it is a sharp, public indictment of the current direction of the social media landscape. By stepping away from a space that was once the primary town square for political discourse, Nandy is signaling that the toxic environment fostered under the platform’s current leadership has finally crossed a line that a government official can no longer ethically…

The era of “crowdsourced” fact-checking—relying on everyday users to flag misinformation in real-time—is proving dangerously inadequate. Meta’s Oversight Board recently issued a sobering warning that these systems simply cannot keep pace with the velocity of viral falsehoods. By the time a community-written note is reviewed, approved, and appended to a post, the lie has often already achieved its goal, fueling anger or inciting discord long before the truth can catch up. When less than 10% of these notes actually reach the public, and publication can take days, we have to stop pretending that this model is a robust solution to…