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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

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243 points Jimmc414 | 4 comments | 13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.397s | source
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seydor ◴[13 Nov 24 21:53 UTC] No.42130473[source]▶
Yann Lecun is also telling everyone on Twitter very loudly that he won't be posting on Twitter.

The Guardian in another article explains that they are annoyed because Musk used twitter to promote his preferred candidate.

The Guardian itself used their own platform to publicly endorse Harris.

This deja-vu of childish antics is just comical in 2024

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dools ◴[13 Nov 24 22:12 UTC] No.42130694[source]▶
Musk claims he is trying to be an open and free speech town square. I don’t have an opinion on whether he did this or not but it is certainly the case that if he put his finger on the scales that goes against his claims.
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1. briandear ◴[13 Nov 24 22:23 UTC] No.42130818[source]▶
Did X suppress support of the other side? The Hunter Biden laptop story is a prime example of the difference between X and Twitter. The suppression of Covid debate is another example.

On old Twitter you could call someone a Nazi and accuse them (falsely) of genocide. But if you “dead name” a celebrity, you’d get banned.

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2. 1986 ◴[13 Nov 24 22:29 UTC] No.42130883[source]▶
Yes, a user was banned for sharing the Vance dossier

https://www.fastcompany.com/91198871/why-x-suspended-journal...

3. dools ◴[13 Nov 24 22:50 UTC] No.42131090[source]▶
I'm not sure about the veracity of your claims of bias pre-Musk (I have heard of the NY Post story issue, as far as I'm aware they suppressed it on advice from law enforcement that it was foreign propaganda, which was later withdrawn and the block removed).

However in answer to this question:

> Did X suppress support of the other side?

If you have 2 options and you promote one artificially then that is the same as suppressing the other option, in either case you're making sure more people see one option than the other.

4. rsynnott ◴[14 Nov 24 11:02 UTC] No.42135035[source]▶
I mean, new!Twitter went through a phase of banning people for merely uttering the dread word 'mastodon'. They also, briefly, hilariously, memory-holed the word 'Twitter' (any occurrence of the string 'twitter' on the mobile app would be replaced with 'X', leading to a rare 2020s outbreak the Medireview Problem: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medireview). And various other deranged petty nonsense.