And so it’s written, Glasgow School of Art will no longer post on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, X.

You don’t have to squint to see why – the guardianship of the platform under Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has been nothing short of disastrous, with its long-running stature for headache-inducing unproductive debate being reduced even further to unfiltered hatred and misinformation.

Musk’s public provocations and bizarre executive decisions over one of the most popular channels of modern communication has even led to him, directly and indirectly, using X to stoke the recent far-right riots. During this time figures like Britain First co-leader Paul Golding were free to post such things as an AI-generated image of policemen clapping for machete-wielding ISIS terrorists in the middle of Leeds town centre, attempting to pass it off as a real scenario playing out amongst the chaos.

It’s the kind of low-effort misinformation campaign that would be laughable if enough people didn’t believe it to be real. If the responses and engagement even come from real people and not the bot farms that have entered through the backdoor. There seem to be no concerns about X's placement as the new flashpoint for the dead internet theory.

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