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posted by janrinok on Sunday November 17 2024, @05:32AM   Printer-friendly

From the horse's own mouth:

The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk's social media platform, X, from its official accounts.

In an announcement to readers, the news organisation said it considered the benefits of being on the platform formerly called Twitter were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the "often disturbing content" found on it.

"We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X," the Guardian said.
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Responding to the announcement, Musk posted on X that the Guardian was "irrelevant" and a "laboriously vile propaganda machine".

Last year National Public Radio (NPR), the non-profit US media organisation, stopped posting on X after the social media platform labelled it as "state-affiliated media". PBS, a US public TV broadcaster, suspended its posts for the same reason.

This month the Berlin film festival said it was quitting X, without citing an official reason, and last month the North Wales police force said it had stopped using X because it was "no longer consistent with our values".

In August the Royal National orthopaedic hospital said it was leaving X, citing an "increased volume of hate speech and abusive commentary" on the platform.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday November 17 2024, @10:27AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Sunday November 17 2024, @10:27AM (#1382141)

    Didn't Disney and a bunch of companies that said they were leaving X just come back recently?

    Apparently they only stopped twitting on one of their secondary accounts but never stopped twitting on their main and all their other accounts nor did they stop advertising on X: https://www.piratesandprincesses.net/disney-parks-return-to-tweeting-on-x-after-elon-musk-told-iger-to-go-fk-yourself/ [piratesandprincesses.net]

    So, their empty threats were the virtue signalling and it got them pretty far seeing how everyone fell for it.

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