58 California Assembly Members Drop Their Official X Accounts, Citing ‘Misinformation’

The lawmakers will remain active on other platforms, according to the state Assembly speaker.

A woman holds a phone displaying the X app on Aug. 11, 2024. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times

California state Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and 57 Assembly members, all Democrats, said on March 27 that they have stopped all communications from official state accounts on social media platform X.

Rivas’s office called it “one of the single largest departures of elected representatives from X.”