"I have quite a lot of pressure to remove the BBC from X, he said. By the way, that is not what I'll be doing because we need to be on these platforms. We need to give quality information on to these social media platforms, bring people in. I actually think that's critical, because otherwise the Chinese, the Iranians they're flooding the zone. They're investing very hard. We are in a position where the majority of 16 to 34s come to BBC every week we're still fighting that battle."
"Davie said he had come under pressure to withdraw from the platform, given numerous complaints that it has shifted significantly to the right under Musk's ownership. The site is also facing a backlash over a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed, generated by X's Grok AI tool. Appearing before MPs to discuss the BBC's efforts to counter misinformation, Davie said he had rejected calls to no longer use X."
The BBC will remain on X to provide quality information and reach vulnerable young audiences worldwide. Pressure existed to withdraw because of complaints that X shifted significantly to the right after Elon Musk's takeover and because of a backlash over images of women and children having their clothes digitally removed by X's Grok AI tool. The BBC framed platform presence as necessary to counter foreign misinformation flows from countries such as China and Iran and to engage 16-to-34-year-olds. A former transport secretary quit X and urged her party and government to leave, citing the platform's descent into unusability and revelations about enablement of child sexual abuse.
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