NEW: @Ofcom has launched a formal investigation into X over the use of the Grok to manipulate images of women and children in removing their clothes. “We have decided to open a formal investigation to establish whether X has failed to comply with its legal obligations under the Online Safety Act.

This week’s weeknote is about letting go. Of drafts turning into artefacts. Of things you could keep perfecting forever. Of the comforting illusion of control. sharonodea.com/2026/01/11/w...

And if you happen to know what the National Data Library is... Seriously though, this is such a thankless role. Until a Chief Data Officer is given the teeth to force departments to change how data is stored, hard-coupled to other systems and made available across government nothing will change.

In other news, with an annual profit of £800,000 and fewer than 100 employees Twitter UK is about as significant economically as a single large Tesco Extra.

Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.

For less technical ppl these proposed changes to gov.uk reduce the ability for users to share from gov.uk to X Govt comms teams/ministers could make different decisions - if they wanted - & users could still share links - with a few more button presses - if they wanted to debate things on X

More MPs are coming off X and I assume that means they will be posting more on here @politicshome.bsky.social has a handy list of all the MPs on Bluesky Please point out anyone who is missing!

Happy Friday, some weeknotes: weeknot.es/weeknotes-s2... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

The government doesn't even have to leave Twitter straight away – it could issue a diktat that everything posted on Twitter has to be posted simultaneously over here, as that would still give journalists/Westminster types an incentive to move over.

New minister appointed - to a role he's kind of already doing: Josh Simons, currently at CO, going to DSIT. The FT reported that he'd be taking on digital ID full time- that programme moved from DSIT to CO, so not clear if that is indeed what he is doing (or if govt is just as confused as me...)

Excellent!

This sort of thing, new out today, is great : www.gov.uk/guidance/gov....

This is really good - but I wonder how to measure the number of policy making civil servants who are aware of this kind of thing? publicpolicydesign.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/08/t...

This is great - well done GDS. technology.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/08/g...

Celebrating another separate new app based on another separate login service. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Saying this while still having government and political accounts on X. www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Thank you for posting this @louisehaighmp.bsky.social . There was a suggestion of crowd-sourcing a list of government organisations, MPs and Lords who still have accounts on X. Please let us know your thoughts on that. Thanks.

Just discovered that for 6 months the UK has has a "Public Sector AI Adoption Unit" in GDS. No page on GOV.UK and no public postings of any kind that I can find. Does anyone know what it's up to or how many people are in it?

Or indeed YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit TikTok, Facebook..... I doubt Labour will be interested in a tiny platform like Bluesky ( or Mastodon)

If someone were to FOI the actual stats that the government has gotten from its various X accounts for the last year do you think they'd get a reasonable response?

Not yet, but we could crowdsource on if someone set up a location...

The UK government still using X as an official communications platform when Bluesky is available is absolutely unconscionable.

I've quickly done a pivot table on this by department (discrepancy in overall numbers *I think* is my dataset doesn't have withdrawn questions) data.mysociety.org/datasette/?m...

Wouldn't it be amazing if he committed to regular public updates of the work he's doing.

(You're not going to get a significant shift to remote treatment until you break away from funding flows are entirely geographic in their logic.)

Sensible choices about where the new NHS Online Hospital should focus. I'd love to know how (if) DHSC has changed to funding mechanisms to make this work well long term. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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