California state Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and 57 Assembly members, all Democrats, said on March 27 that they have stopped all communications from official state accounts on social media platform X.
Rivas’s office called it “one of the single largest departures of elected representatives from X.”
The members said they have concerns about false information on the site and accused the platform of having lackluster content moderation policies that result in alleged proliferation of hate speech, racist content, and fake or inauthentic accounts.
“There are real risks with relying on a private company, owned by Elon Musk, as a channel for communications,” Rivas, from Salinas, California, said in a statement. “Democracy depends on impartial information. … I don’t think taxpayer resources should go to X.”
Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, from Winters, said she encountered false information on X related to local disasters. […]
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