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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: 1, Informative) by VLM on Sunday November 17 2024, @05:47PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 17 2024, @05:47PM (#1382180)

    The Who? Oh wait they're a british music band.

    I think The Guardian is dead legacy media that no one pays attention to anymore. Huh I wonder why. Might be the leftist virtue signalling. Naah everyone loves that and they should double, no triple down, on that to turn their circulation numbers around.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/288278/circulation-trend-of-the-guardian-newspaper-uk/ [statista.com]

    Oooof Brutal. In 2021 they stopped reporting circulation numbers because they dropped below 100K.

    Google thinks the UK has about 68M peeps, so whatever will 0.15% of the UK do without their favorite fish wrap? I suppose the other 99.85% of the population will not even notice when The Guardian closes.

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  • (Score: 2) by Spamalope on Sunday November 17 2024, @06:50PM

    by Spamalope (5233) on Sunday November 17 2024, @06:50PM (#1382187) Homepage

    You've hit on a primary reason. X is a direct competitor, and no long a political ally so no reason to drive traffic there. The rest is political bluster.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2024, @09:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17 2024, @09:17PM (#1382208)

    Huh I wonder why. Might be the leftist virtue signalling.

    so... how much did twitter lose when it made its hard right turn? here's a hint: it begins with a b.

  • (Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday November 18 2024, @07:47PM

    by cmdrklarg (5048) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 18 2024, @07:47PM (#1382351)

    So? Print news has been in a precipitous decline for years now. Any that haven't moved online have already closed.

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