‘It’s a disaster zone’: People of London on Elon Musk and X

We ask Londoners what they think about X, formerly known as Twitter.

Transcript

00:00Yeah, I think Twitter's become, Twitter stroke X has become a disaster zone, it's gone downhill

00:05quite badly. I try to use it, I use it for some community projects, it's just full of

00:10polarised opinions, there's not really much happening there anymore.

00:14I think that leaders, political leaders, need to have a really serious think about whether

00:22it's acceptable for big voices, important people like Elon Musk to be able to intervene

00:29in the way that they do and to be able to effectively game the system in favour of their

00:35message and I would not be treading lightly. I think it's complicated, but I think it's

00:43problematic.

00:44Yeah, I think the power of social media is, I know it's a cliche, but it's really underestimated

00:51and the amount of misinformation and the fact that you get it quoted to you by people is

00:56terrifying actually, the amount of bad information out there.