Meta’s Nick Clegg criticized Elon Musk’s X as a platform for elites and unregulated speech.

Clegg highlighted X’s role in allowing some users to incite far-right protests in Britain.

X faces declining ad revenue, a suspension in Brazil, and increased hate speech under Musk.

A top executive at Meta slammed Elon Musk’s X on Thursday, saying it has turned into a “tiny” platform designed for elites.

Nick Clegg, Meta’s president for global affairs and the former British deputy prime minister, compared X to Facebook and Instagram. He called X an unregulated platform that lets “anyone say anything.”

In a talk at a think tank in London, Clegg said that Musk turned X, which he bought in 2022, into “a sort of one-man, sort of hyper-partisan and ideological hobby horse.”

Clegg noted that people barred from Meta’s platforms were allowed to continue sharing on X and Telegram right before far-right protests and riots that swept Britain last month.

Clegg’s examples included Andrew Tate, a self-described “success coach” and misogynist, was barred from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. He also mentioned Tommy Robinson, a far-right activist who is permanently barred from Meta’s platforms for repeatedly breaking policies on hate speech.

X said it has 250 million daily active users in a March post, while Meta’s platforms had 3.3 billion daily active users, it said in a second-quarter earnings report.

To be sure, Meta has faced its share of public criticism for content moderation.

In the US, Meta has faced criticism for, among other issues, its role in the illicit sale of drugs. Earlier this year, founder Mark Zuckerberg joined other tech CEOs, including X’s, for a Congressional grilling about inadequate safety measures for children online. Internationally, Meta’s lack of content moderation and reliance on third-party civil society groups to report misinformation have been found to play a role in proliferating violence in Myanmar, Iraq, and Ethiopia.