Britain’s Guardian says it will no longer publish on Elon Musk’s X

Britain’s The Guardian newspaper announced today that it will no longer publish content from its official accounts on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), citing “the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform”. As the newspaper states in its article, “the platform’s coverage of the US presidential election crystallized long-standing concerns about its content.” In a statement to its readers, the news organization emphasized that it considers the disadvantages of our presence at X now outweigh the advantages. “We wanted to inform readers that we will no longer be posting to any official Guardian accounts on social networking site X,” the newspaper said. The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with around 27 million followers. The British newspaper said the platform’s content includes far-right conspiracy theories and racist content. “This has been something we’ve been looking at for a while, given the often disturbing content being promoted […]
Source: News Beast

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