U.K. — Lisa Nandy announced that the U.K. culture and media department will stop using X. Nandy, who serves as Culture Secretary, posted on the platform that she and her department would be leaving. "I've decided to leave this platform and my department will too. A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate. It isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don't want to support it," Nandy said.

Nandy stated that individuals wishing to interact with her via social media could do so through Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The culture and media department is the second U.K. department to quit X. Richard Hermer, the attorney general for England and Wales, instructed his office to stop posting on X two weeks before Nandy's announcement. Hermer's decision was prompted in part by the platform's role in stoking disorder in Southampton and Belfast earlier in June.

Widespread violence occurred in Southampton involving people protesting about Henry Nowak. Nowak was handcuffed as he lay dying from a stab wound after his killer falsely claimed to have been the victim of a racist assault. Violence erupted in Belfast six days after the Southampton events. Far-right activists called for demonstrations in Belfast in response to a stabbing attack for which a 30-year-old refugee from Sudan was charged with attempted murder.

Earlier, Keir Starmer threatened X with being blocked in the U.K. if it did not take action over sexualised images of women and children produced by its Grok AI tool. X subsequently took action regarding the images.