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

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: 0, Offtopic) by khallow on Monday November 18 2024, @10:53PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 18 2024, @10:53PM (#1382396) Journal
    Nobody is advocating removing Section 230. ElizabethGreene correctly observes that Section 230 protection is not absolute. My view is that creating a censorship cartel is not protected by Section 230 for the reasons I've stated [soylentnews.org] before.

    Unless it doesn't matter to you if someone distorts the truth as long as such distortion comports with what you want to believe. If so, I'm wasting my time. I hope I'm not.

    There are many ways to distort the truth. Creating a single censor that most social media outlets use is one such way.

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