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.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday November 17 2024, @01:01PM (1 child)
They are not alone. It's almost as if they organized it as several other European media outlets "by accident" stopped with X at the same time as The Guardian. Guardian was just the most well known one and perhaps leading the effort. But looking at a national level for a few countries they where not alone. Their readers probably demanded it or they got tired of being called mean names on X by the people they pissed off.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by mcgrew on Sunday November 17 2024, @07:04PM
I never was on X [mcgrewbooks.com], even before the Nazi bought it. Deleted my Farsebook account when they wanted me to train their bots for free.
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