MINISTERS are considering leaving X over the social media platform’s response to a child sexual abuse scandal.

Its AI tool Grok has been allowing users to generate digitally altered pictures of people, including children, with their clothes removed.

Today Labour Party chair and Cabinet Office Minister Anna Turley told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “X, first and foremost, has to get its act together and prevent this. 

“It’s really, really important that we tackle this. Those conversations are ongoing across government.

“I think all of us in politics are evaluating our use of social media and how we do that, and I know that conversation is happening.”

Asked whether the Labour Party would leave the site, she said: “Those conversations are taking place because it’s really important that we make sure that we’re in a safe space.”

X said that it was limiting the use of Grok’s image creating tool to paid users only.

Former transport secretary Louise Haigh on Thursday said that it would be “unconscionable” for the government to use X “for another minute.”

None of the major parties have yet left the site.

Asked this week whether he would stop taking payments from X for his posts, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage declined to answer, saying he was “very worried” about the images on the site but believed the company would listen to criticism.

PM Sir Keir Starmer’s former director of communications James Lyons this week argued that “your job in political communication is to persuade people.

“And to persuade people, you have to engage, and I think you should be using all the platforms and forums that you can to do that.”