The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from its official accounts.
“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.
The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers.
The Guardian said content on the platform about which it had longstanding concerns included far-right conspiracy theories and racism.
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”.
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. »
