Nandy said the companies disclosed inconsistent approaches to removing names and addresses of people shared online — and accused Elon Musk’s X of “contempt” for failing to send a representative to the meeting. X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
More broadly, Nandy said the U.K. government would be “moving at pace to make sure that we keep people safe and we clean up our online space, which has been left to the private sector to police for far too long.”
“Our government intends to be more interventionist in this area,” she said.
In a separate interview on Wednesday, Nandy said the government wanted to see regulator Ofcom enforcing the Online Safety Act “more robustly and more quickly.”
A review of Ofcom’s resources and enforcement powers is ongoing, with the regulator set to soon take on additional responsibilities to enforce a social media ban for under-16s.