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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

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243 points Jimmc414 | 2 comments | 13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | 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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oneeyedpigeon ◴[13 Nov 24 22:06 UTC] No.42130620[source]▶
The Guardian is a newspaper with a long-proclaimed left-wing bias. Musk has claimed that X is politically neutral.
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rurp ◴[13 Nov 24 22:28 UTC] No.42130870[source]▶
Musk claims a lot of things. Amplifying right wing propaganda and conspiracy theories, often from his own twitter account, is not politically neutral.
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1. jslaby ◴[13 Nov 24 23:12 UTC] No.42131256[source]▶
It's not even amplified just from his account but the site itself. Create a new account and follow something like sports or entertainment.. then see what floods your feed. I logged in first time today, and it's quite shocking actually. Not a single left leaning account, just all maga that outnumbers the sports or whatever you clicked as interests.
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2. wruza ◴[14 Nov 24 03:34 UTC] No.42132903[source]▶
Is it even strange, considering that elections just happened and who’s gonna be the new president?