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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: 3, Informative) by Spamalope on Sunday November 17 2024, @07:01PM
Op's comment isn't flamebait, it's context to the 'going off in a huff' performance.
The 'X is now Nazi' narrative was a politically motivated lie. To the extent anything like that was accurate, it was false flag or selective interpretation.
As revealed by 'The Twitter files', the TOS had been being applied as a political weapon while the company denied it. After switching to X, the TOS started being applied to toxic voices on the left as well as right and community notes changed policies to improve.
On that note I've seen the community notes on X evolve into something as good as I've seen given that'd it's subject to organized group brigading attacks intended to disrupt it's neutral policy. For the areas where I've got personal knowledge (aka, can check independently), they've been accurate and nothing I'd quibble over. I've seen examples of mis-steps pointed out - and them course correcting which is a great sign.
And... media companies were used to posting political boosterism or outright hoaxes as fact, and started getting called out for that. They didn't like it at all. So long as they keep calling out lies of the right I'm a fan (aka - don't do just-before-X twitter but with political tribes revered - I'm not in either tribe and want someone to keep them vaguely honest since the traditional press won't) I'm not expecting miracles, just less bad than the shitshow everywhere else. (Notes seems to have settled on a modern version of the Slashdot mods + meta mods system? At least looks like that from the outside)