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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Nadeem Badshah

Jess Phillips calls X a ‘place of misery’ as she vows to scale back use

Jess Phillips against a colourful background
Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, said she was ‘massively addicted to Twitter’ – the former name of X. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian

A government minister said she has scaled back her use of social media platform X, arguing it had become “a bit despotic” and was “a place of misery now”.

Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, said although she had previously been “massively addicted to Twitter”, referencing the former name of X, she had removed the app from her phone after Elon Musk took over the company in October 2022.

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