{"id":16211,"date":"2024-10-15T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/westminsters-reliance-on-elon-musks-x-is-totally-wrong-says-labour-mp\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T06:37:20","slug":"westminsters-reliance-on-elon-musks-x-is-totally-wrong-says-labour-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/westminsters-reliance-on-elon-musks-x-is-totally-wrong-says-labour-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Westminster\u2019s reliance on Elon Musk\u2019s X is \u2018totally wrong\u2019, says Labour MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Josh Simons, close ally of Starmer, suggests Musk manipulates platform\u2019s algorithm to boost his own interests<\/p>\n<p>Westminster needs to wean itself off X, a close ally of Keir Starmer has said, as he suggested that Elon Musk was deliberately manipulating its algorithm to boost his own political and personal interests.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Simons, the MP for Makerfield and former head of the Starmerite thinktank Labour Together, said he believed the British political class was dangerously addicted to the platform, formerly known as Twitter. Simons maintains an active X profile, but says he is keen not to \u201coveruse\u201d it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/oct\/14\/westminster-elon-musk-x-labour-mp-josh-simons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c90cd76198cbe0330c5e379b20cfa5c5fac9664a\/0_157_4742_2847\/master\/4742.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c1b953e5fb8488b3ce592fd3648699ac\" title=\"Westminster\u2019s reliance on Elon Musk\u2019s X is \u2018totally wrong\u2019, says Labour MP\" \/>Exclusive: Josh Simons, close ally of Starmer, suggests Musk manipulates platform\u2019s algorithm to boost his own interests<br \/>\nWestminster needs to wean itself off X, a close ally of Keir Starmer has said, as he suggested that Elon Musk was deliberately manipulating its algorithm to boost his own political and personal interests.<br \/>\nJosh Simons, the MP for Makerfield and former head of the Starmerite thinktank Labour Together, said he believed the British political class was dangerously addicted to the platform, formerly known as Twitter. Simons maintains an active X profile, but says he is keen not to \u201coveruse\u201d it. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Josh Simons, close ally of Starmer, suggests Musk manipulates platform\u2019s algorithm to boost his own interests Westminster needs to wean itself off X, a close ally of Keir Starmer has said, as he suggested that Elon Musk was deliberately manipulating its algorithm to boost his own political and personal interests. Josh Simons, the MP &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/westminsters-reliance-on-elon-musks-x-is-totally-wrong-says-labour-mp\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Westminster\u2019s reliance on Elon Musk\u2019s X is \u2018totally wrong\u2019, says Labour MP<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}