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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 Frosty Piss on Sunday November 17 2024, @03:26PM (1 child)
But the big corporations that are already in bed with the MAGA Cult, or want to be, are flocking to X to dump their pocket change into Musk's accounts. The gains from the deep-pocket Suits probably greatly outnumbers the folks like the Guardian, who weren't spending anyoney in Trump Land anyway.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mcgrew on Sunday November 17 2024, @07:08PM
But the big corporations that are already in bed with the MAGA Cult...
Who do you think are responsible for MAGA in the first place? MAGA is the CEO's wet dream! Note that were it not for advertisers, there would be no "culture war." The culture way is a feint, to keep you from seeing the class war they have been waging against the working class since Reagan.
When masked police can stop you on the street and demand that you prove citizenship, your nation is a POLICE STATE