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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: 0.207s | source
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thinkingemote ◴[13 Nov 24 22:12 UTC] No.42130688[source]▶
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...

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ribadeo ◴[15 Nov 24 09:35 UTC] No.42145293[source]▶
Social media largely feeds the petty culture war that substitutes for political dialog.

I would say it's a strong net negative.

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1. ribadeo ◴[15 Nov 24 09:36 UTC] No.42145301[source]▶
Social media is not the PUBLIC, but billionaires busy brainwashing and fleecing the public.