Users of Twitter/X may notice some of our accounts there closing down (some already have) over the next few weeks. We will be keeping our main information sharing account, @parkdalecarlton, operational, but some members of staff have chosen to delete their accounts in response to the changes since Twitter became X. We have collectively noted a lot more ‘fake news’, untruths and hateful, discriminatory content and this no longer seems to be properly moderated, even when reported. The owner of X seems to have decided to use it to spread division and to destabilise democracy and we’d rather not be any more part of that than we need to be. It doesn’t fit with our values. That said, it does have it’s uses, so we’ll hang on in minimally.
We feel that, for now at least, we can make use of ‘block and mute’ effectively if we focus on just the one main account, which really serves the basic purpose to auto-share features from here on the website..
Apologies to anyone who will miss any of the deleted accounts – notifications of news stories and posts will still appear on our Facebook page and main Twitter/X feed so it remains worthwhile still following both of those (links below)