As Ofcom launches its investigation into Musk’s X, threatening a full-on ban, its top brass are raking in the cash. Their latest accounts quietly released over the weekend show CEO Melanie Dawes pocketed a cool £385,000 in 2025 – an inflation-busting 8% increase on 2024. That’s more than double what the Prime Minister earns….
Dawes and Ofcom Group Directors took home an eye-watering combined £2.54 million in 2025, compared to £1.9 million in 2024 – a 31% increase. Among the winners is the new Online Safety Act Group Director Oliver Griffiths, appointed at the end of 2024, who earned £272,950. Nice work if you can get it…
Business Secretary Peter Kyle told Times Radio that the government is considering banning X:
“Yes, of course. We gave these powers to Ofcom and not giving them the powers to Ofcom with the proviso that they will never be used. We gave very strident powers to Ofcom, which is our independent regulator, with very specific legal obligations to and the powers to use them in certain circumstances. So the law doesn’t allow for these sorts of powers to be used in certain circumstances.”