A parliamentarian has faced the heads of social networks for the extreme messages received by politicians after it was threatened to be hung.
Emily Darlington said the comment was made after sharing a request to save her Native Post Office in X last November and has not yet been eliminated, despite informing him.
The same account has continued to publish racist, misogynist and homophobic comments, he said.
The Labor Deputy was speaking in the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which on the grill of technological giants a stranger, Tiktok, Google AND Goal On Tuesday as part of an investigation into erroneous online information and harmful algorithms.
Mrs. Darlington said: “In November I published a tweet on my request to save my Native Post Office.
“This was a person’s response:” You are a traitor for the British people and balancing you so slowly in a Gibbet. “
“I had to look for what a Gibbet is, it’s not a pleasant.”
A Gibbet is a form of gallows of which the bodies of the executed criminals were hung to public opinion.
Mrs. Darlington said that she informed that the period of a harmful and violent speech, in violation of the X rules that the State that expresses the desire for violence is not allowed.
When heading to Wfredo Fernández, principal director of Governmental Affairs of X, he said: “These are their security rules. No measures were taken, no measures are taken, the position is still updated. ”
He entered the list of other violent and racist comments made by account.
She asked Mr. Fernández: “Is this acceptable, under the appearance of freedom of expression in X these days?”
The X official said that the comments are “abhorrent” and that their teams take a look, but that could not make guarantees that the account is eliminated.
Mrs. Darlington said that the comments “are not unique” and that many other parliamentarians receive messages “from this type of accounts.”
“(They) inform them and no measures are taken,” he said.
In another part of the session, the parliamentarians collided with goal representatives about the implementation of the end -to -end encryption, with Paul Waugh of work accusing the platform of Convert -fb Messenger is “Jeffrey Epstein’s Personal Island”.
Goal Elimination of third -party facts verifiers From their platforms they also arrived for criticism, and parliamentarians say it will allow the “racist erroneous information” to spread.
In January, the chief goal Mark Zuckerberg announced the change, saying at that time that the facts of events were too “politically partial” and had an impact on “free expression”, a movement seen by many as an attempt to approach the professional -To Posture free speech of the incoming administration of Donald Trump.
