Sport England suspends X social media account and takes aim at Elon Musk

Tue, 13 Jan 2026

• Chair decries platform’s ‘hostility to women and girls’

• Chris Boardman criticises ‘divisive’ conversations

Sport England has revealed that it has suspended its account on X, because the social media platform “­increasingly promotes and monetises an environment that is hostile to women and girls”.

In a blog post explaining the ­decision the Sport England chair, Chris Boardman, criticised X’s AI platform tool, Grok, saying it had “contributed to the amplification of and worse, normalisation of, misogynistic content”.