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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

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243 points Jimmc414 | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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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whamlastxmas ◴[13 Nov 24 22:12 UTC] No.42130682[source]▶
X is hundreds of millions of people so it’s hard to claim it’s anything
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crabmusket ◴[13 Nov 24 22:14 UTC] No.42130716[source]▶
X refers to the company itself, not every user. And by extension naturally it should refer to the algorithms developed by the company.
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1. whamlastxmas ◴[14 Nov 24 01:47 UTC] No.42132309[source]▶
The algos are public information so if there was bias it seems like it’d be fairly straightforward to show it