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Guardian Will No Longer Post on Elon Musk's X

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

c0lo writes:

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: 2) by turgid on Sunday November 17 2024, @11:39AM (5 children)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 17 2024, @11:39AM (#1382144) Journal

    So I can quit on principle?

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by mcgrew on Sunday November 17 2024, @07:00PM (1 child)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday November 17 2024, @07:00PM (#1382189) Homepage Journal

    Not if you work for the evil son of a bitch. But you should pity him and his fellow stupidly rich assholes, greed is the very worst, self destructive of all of the addictions. Greed puts cocaine and heroin to shame when it comes to addictions.

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    When masked police can stop you on the street and demand that you prove citizenship, your nation is a POLICE STATE

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2024, @09:15PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2024, @09:15PM (#1382206)
    careful, any move you make could be labeled 'virtue signaling', and at that point ... for some reason... that ends* the discussion.

    * void where approved political leanings