Max Wilkinson, liberal politician & former journalist from UK who oversaw Cheltenham’s “Climate Emergency Action Plan,” commenting on X while attending a Demos event:

“We obviously have social media, which is a massive problem at the moment for engagement. I’m tempted to say, you know, how you make your voice heard as a citizen in 2025 in the UK: set up an X account and start writing some sort of nativist content and it will go around the world really, really quickly. Your voice will be heard as quickly as you want it to be, not in a way that I would be comfortable with, and I would suggest not in a way that most people on the panel this evening would be comfortable with either.

“But that is a really easy way to get your voice heard. Get some content about how you think immigration is too high, or immigration is the big thing that’s tearing the country apart, etc. And that goes around the world because social media run by the world’s richest man, X, is now making sure that you can have your voice heard in a really easy way that you couldn’t in the past.”

Demos is some pro-”Democracy” org, funded in part by… Republic of Korea, Mozilla (???), and a bunch of other orgs/etc that I’d need to look deeper in.