Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

The traditional news in their assessments on why the Democrats lost and Trump won seem to be focusing on platforms and sites. They think the content of a message and where the message appears is more important than the messaging or how a message is conveyed.

The guardian will no longer post to twitter but they will keep on harvesting news from it and about it.

On average every 3 days someone submits to HN an article against Elon Musk written by The Guardian. I imagine there are more articles written than are submitted. Musk and Twitter provide a huge amount of material for them.

Past year HN submissions (111): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...

I think the main effect of social media is just in neutralising emotion and real world action. It give people a place to vent. And then they get angry when nothing in the real world changes. The power is still in the hands of a few geriatrics that can be bothered to go outside and do something. For the moment this benefited trump but it could just as easily swing in another direction.

Social media largely feeds the petty culture war that substitutes for political dialog.

I would say it's a strong net negative.

Social media is not the PUBLIC, but billionaires busy brainwashing and fleecing the public.