Die kanadische Regierung nutzt X weiterhin im Skandal um Materialien zum Kindesmissbrauch auf der Plattform

Twitter has a major problem in Grok and fake news, but guess what? Everyone are still using it.

Take the Caracas strikes for example: where does everyone flood for news? Twitter, not Reddit, not the CBC, not National Post, not the CNN or Fox, but Twitter.

People in their 50s and 60s may know about Twitter, but would not have even heard of Blue Sky at all, and to them, Twitter is where they find information on things like school closures, etc.

I can see the government moving off Twitter if Canadians altogether decide to stop using it such that it is no longer an effective social media platform, but until then, you use whatever your citizens are using.

And you are still using Reddit after Reddit’s multiple scandals…

And Reddit, and Google, and Facebook, Instagram.

The problems ain’t limited to X.

The amount of people in the comments here equating the built in feature of creating child porn to other platforms’ data breaches is disgusting

There’s a very clear line X is crossing, and the only reason they haven’t been banned is the political protection Trump has provided Musk.

It’s kind of telling when you have Republicans drafting up sanctions for the UK in the event that they ban their *“totally not a propaganda machine“* private company. No one in our Government should be using that garbage.

Boycott the fascists

I mean, a lot of people are that should probably get off of it.

„Maybe if we keep saying it people will stop using the website!“

Nope. Not moving to Bluesky. In fact, I’ve been going to X more just to spite the propagandists.

It just burns the left when they can’t control the narrative.

The issue isn’t just that the government is still using X, it’s that we’ve allowed official communication to depend on a single foreign platform run by someone who treats safety and accountability as quaint and optional.

Canada’s position must be zero tolerance for child-exploitative content, and we should already be actively distancing ourselves from Musk’s chaos-first governance of X. The fix doesn’t require any drama. Frame it as basic risk management: make Canada.ca the source of truth again, publish full statements there first, use email and RSS for distribution, and treat social media as a secondary mirror rather than critical infrastructure.

We should set clear conditions for official use: no native posting, limited or read-only accounts, and real consequences for platforms that can’t or won’t demonstrate control over AI-generated abuse. That’s not censorship or panic. It’s the level of governance and security we already expect from our institutions.

If the Canadian government waits until outrage forces action, it will look weak and reactive. Planning ahead and disengaging decisively based on our own standards is how we handle serious national risks—this should be no different.