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

Labour minister says she removed social media platform's app from her mobile phone when Elon Musk took over

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.