According to The Guardian, the Musk-owned social media platform is full of conspiracy theories and prejudice.
PUBLISHED: 13 Nov 2024 at 21: 54
The Guardian, a British media outlet, announced on Wednesday that it would no longer publish to X on the social media platform, citing “disturbing information,” including prejudice and conspiracy theories.
The left-leaning Guardian is the first major British internet business to leave the program Elon Musk, which businessman Elon Musk purchased in 2022, and has 10.7 million fans on X.
Critics claim that Musk’s hands-off method has made the system, which was formerly Online, awash with lies and hate speech.
In an editor that was published on the Guardian website, the Guardian stated that” we believe that resources may be better used to promote our news elsewhere because the advantages of being on X are then outweighed by the negatives.”
Given the frequently depressing articles promoted or found on the system, including far-right crime ideas and racism,” this is something we have been considering for a while,” it said.
The US presidential election campaign only served to highlight what we have known for a while: that Elon Musk, its owner, has been able to influence political discourse through its use of control.
In reply, Musk posted on X and said of the Guardian:” They are meaningless”.
Musk, who backed Donald Trump in the US vote this month, has stated that he supports the right to free speech.
Musk was appointed by Trump on Tuesday to lead the effort to make the country more successful.
When far-right and bigoted violence broke out in Britain this year after posts that falsely claimed an Islamist immigrant was responsible for an assault in Southport, northern England, where three young girls were killed, were later exposed.
A British authorities army stopped posting on X, according to the first Reuters statement released last month, and several others followed.
Some European organizations have announced they will no longer publish to X in recent months.
Britain’s state continues to post on X but does not use it for paid connections. It does, however, advertise on Meta’s Instagram and Facebook, a federal source told Reuters next month.