Department for Science, Innovation and Technology written question – answered at on 26 June 2026.
Anneliese Dodds
Labour/Co-operative, Oxford East
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with X on removing illegal material.
Anneliese Dodds
Labour/Co-operative, Oxford East
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with X on removing illegal material which it has been made aware of through means aside from its new UK illegal content form.
Anneliese Dodds
Labour/Co-operative, Oxford East
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with X on removing illegal material in different instances relating to how it becomes aware of that material.
Kanishka Narayan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The Secretary of State has repeatedly called out illegal content on X including when the Grok AI tool was being used to create and share degrading, non-consensual intimate deepfakes.
Government engages regularly with online platforms, including X, to press for swift action on illegal content. Ministers have made clear that companies must act decisively, and have recently convened senior social media representatives to reinforce expectations, including on harms such as antisemitism.
X has recently made public commitments to ofcom to better protect UK users from illegal hate and terror content, including expedited timescales for reviewing illegal hate and terror content, which Ofcom is monitoring closely.
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