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An MP has confronted social media bosses over extreme messages received by politicians after she was threatened with being hung.<\/p>\n

Emily Darlington said the comment was made after she shared a petition to save her local Post Office on X last November and still hasn’t been removed – despite reporting it.<\/p>\n

The same account has continued to post racist, misogynistic and homophobic comments, she said.<\/p>\n

The Labour MP was speaking at the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which grilled tech giants X<\/a><\/strong>, TikTok<\/a><\/strong>, Google<\/a><\/strong> and Meta<\/a><\/strong> on Tuesday as part of an inquiry into online misinformation and harmful algorithms.<\/p>\n

Ms Darlington said: “In November I posted a tweet about my petition to save my local Post Office.<\/p>\n

“This was a reply from one person: ‘You are a traitor to the British people and you will swing oh so slowly on a gibbet’.<\/p>\n

“I had to look up what a gibbet is, it’s not a pleasant thing.”<\/p>\n

A gibbet is a form of gallows from which the bodies of executed criminals were hung to public view.<\/p>\n

Ms Darlington said she reported the post as harmful and violent speech, in violation of X’s rules that state expressing desire for violence is not allowed.<\/p>\n

Addressing Wifredo Fernandez, X’s senior director for government affairs, she said: “These are your safety rules. No action was taken, no action is still taken, the post is still up.”<\/p>\n

She went onto list other violent and racist comments made by the account.<\/p>\n

She asked Mr Fernandez: “Is this acceptable, under the guise of free speech on X these days?”<\/p>\n

The X official said the comments are “abhorrent” and he will have his teams take a look – but that couldn’t make any assurances the account will be removed.<\/p>\n

Ms Darlington said the comments are “not unique” and many other MPs get messages “from these kinds of accounts”.<\/p>\n

“[They] report them and no action is taken”, she said.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere in the session, MPs clashed with Meta representatives over the implementation of end-to-end encryption – with Labour’s Paul Waugh accusing the platform of turning Facebook Messenger into “Jeffrey Epstein’s private island”.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meta’s removal of third-party fact-checkers<\/a><\/strong> from its platforms also came in for criticism, with MPs saying it will allow “racist misinformation” to spread.<\/p>\n

In January, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg announced the change, saying at the time that fact-checkers were too “politically biased” and were having an impact on “free expression” – a move seen by many as an attempt to get closer to the pro-free speech stance of the incoming Donald Trump administration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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